Liberals, NDP vote to defer normal House proceedings for another 4 months cdnpoli
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responds to a question in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on May 26, 2020.
The Conservative and Bloc Quebecois MPs — who had argued for a resumption of normal Commons operations with a reduced number of MPs in the chamber — voted against. The Commons has been largely adjourned since mid-March, when the country went into lockdown to curb the spread of the deadly virus that causes COVID-19. It has met only briefly to pass emergency aid legislation and several times to come to agreement on how the chamber should function while the pandemic continues.
Conservative House leader Candice Bergen called the special committee “feeble” and a “fake Parliament.” The motion calls on the procedure and House affairs committee to further study how a secure electronic voting system could be set up.
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