to introduce large new policies, such as creating a new Canada Innovation Corporation in Bill C-47.
“This does a disservice to the legislative process,” the report states. “This is particularly concerning regarding amendments to the Criminal Code and the Canada Elections Act.”to allow police to seek authorization to search for “digital assets” related to proceeds of crime. Another Criminal Code change in the bill lowers the criminal rate of interest from an effective annual rate of 60 per cent to 35 per cent, in an effort to address predatory lending.
Progressive Senate Group Senator Pierre Dalphond, a former Quebec Court of Appeal judge, said the Liberals used to criticize the previous Conservative government for using similar tactics with budget bills. Ms. Pate said senators feel they are being placed in a difficult situation because they don’t feel as though they could reject or amend a budget bill in the same way they might deal with other government bills.
“We continually are making this observation year after year, and yet the Trudeau government continues to do this,” Ms. Batters said. “I hope that the time will be coming where these independent Trudeau-appointed senators start to push back against this, but I’m not sure if the time is right now.”was asked last week at a Senate committee by Canadian Senators Group Senator Larry Smith to comment on her government’s “troubling” practice of “jamming” many measures in omnibus budget bills.