Saturday, November 26, 2016

TAX CUT SPAT IN POST-PARTISAN SENATE

The supposedly post-partisan Senate inaugurated by Justin Trudeau’s appointment of independent senators has gotten off to an unpromising start.
No sooner had the new senators started arriving in the Red Chamber than one of the most intensely partisan spats of recent times broke out. The Conservative caucus decided to stop tinkering with marginal legislation and go for broke by amending the foundational bill on which the whole Liberal legislative agenda is balanced — the middle-class tax cut.
 

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