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Opposition House Leader Nathan Cullen told reporters Tuesday hisparty, like the Liberals and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, will be proposing hundreds of amendments toBill C-38 when it returns to the House from the Commons financecommittee. Each of those amendments will require a vote and each vote will bea matter of confidence because the legislation is a budget bill,Mr. Cullen explained. If the votes go on for hours and hours, perhaps days, thegovernment has to get every single vote right, he said. Theycan t have members falling asleep, going home and not coming backfor votes, missing votes. New Democrats have held a number of hearings in various communitiesacross the country to solicit what they say is the response ofaverage Canadians to the bill. The findings of the hearings havebeen compiled in a report the party released Tuesday. Canadians said this is wrong, isthere any way that you can stop this, Mr. Cullen said. NDP finance critic Peggy Nash pointed out that the 425-page billhas 753 clauses that will impact more than 70 existing laws. Andit is flying at break-neck speed through the finance committee, she said, even though it touches so many areas outside of finance everything from old age security to health transfers to[Employment Insurance], to democratic oversight. The largest section of the bill will overhaul environmental assessment legislation. Ms. Nash said the committee has been told that, ifthe bill is passed into law, the number of federal environmentalassessments conducted every year will be reduced to 20 from about6,000. The finance committee has heard from many witnesses from all endsof the political spectrum argue that this bill should be broken upso that is can be properly deliberated, Ms. Nash said. Thecommittee are expected to sit long into the night on Tuesday andthe bill could be returned to the House by Thursday. Government House Leader Peter Van Loan said in an e-mail themeasures contained in the budget bill are intended to sustain andimprove Canada's economic outlook. As the global recovery remains fragile especially in Europe Canadians want their government to focus on what matters like jobs,economic growth, and long-term prosperity, Mr. Van Loan wrote. It s time for the NDP to put Canada s economy first, instead offilibusters and other partisan procedural games. New Democrats and Liberals, who have members on the financecommittee, are expected to make any substantive amendments at thecommittee stage amendments that have so far been rejected by theConservatives who hold a majority on the committee. But Ms. May, who does not have a seat on the committee, may makesubstantive amendments when the legislation is back before theHouse. Both the Liberals and the Conservatives have consulted withMs. May about the amendments she will propose. In addition, both parties can make their own complementaryamendments to delete clauses, which will double the number of votesat the very last stage, Mr. Cullen said. We have had an open doorwith the government to say there are a number of paths other thanthe one they are about to walk on, he said, because the onethey are about to walk on has a very thin edge. More Related to this Story Tory ministers crash budget hearing, leaving little time forquestions Opposition aims to disrupt passage of omnibus Tory budget bill Rookie Tory MP backtracks on opposition to budget bill. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as IR Interactive Whiteboard Manufacturer , China Electronic Interactive Whiteboard for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Electronic Interactive Whiteboard.
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