By Dan Albas, MP for Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola.
Before PM Trudeau prorogued Parliament back in August, it was not set to resume regular sittings until Monday, September 21, 2020.
Once the PM broke his promise not to use prorogation, he did so, in order to shut down the Parliamentary Committees investigating the WE scheme.
Last week the government tabled Bill C-4 that is the latest COVID relief response bill.
What was disappointing about this is that the Trudeau Liberal Government only allowed a little over 4 hours of debate time on a proposed in excess of $50 Billion worth of deficit spending.
Why did the Trudeau Liberal Government do this?
Because there was not enough time after existing programs all ran out.
By proroguing Parliament, and delaying the return of the House, the time that should have been spent properly debating and reviewing this bill at committee stage was entirely lost.
In other words, the Prime Minister created this situation solely to cover for the WE scandal and that has now come at the expense of legitimate democratic debate on a critically important bill.
In this instance Parliament finally had an opportunity to be proactive and study and debate a critically important bill prior to it coming into effect.
Instead the Prime Minister was more concerned with shutting down and proroguing Parliament so that the Parliamentary Committees, who were uncovering uncomfortable and alarming evidence over the WE scheme.
So this opportunity for proactive debate and study was squandered.
