Conservatives used delay tactics to resist a Liberal timeline to get the legislation through committee hearings
The federal government’s latest large budget bill would apply Canada’s Criminal Code to the surface of the moon, an example Conservative MPs cited this week in their effort to resist a Liberal timeline to get the legislation through committee hearings.
Conservatives used delay tactics for two days to protest against the government’s proposed May 30 deadline to wrap up all finance committee work on the bill. Late Thursday, MPs reached a unanimous deal that will give them until June 3. The motion also allows for more time than originally planned for other committees to hold simultaneous studies. The agreement still gives the Liberals time to have the bill passed into law before Parliament’s summer recess.
Conservative finance critic Ed Fast said the new lunar law illustrates the wide-ranging nature of the legislation and why it should be the subject of extensive committee hearings to gather opinions from experts. “It’s an omnibus bill. It doesn’t only deal with money matters,” Mr. Fast said in an interview on Thursday. “It deals with issues that have really no specific financial implications attached to them. And it’s a way of the Liberals ramming through without proper oversight initiatives that Canadians need to know about, and that we as opposition members should have a good look at.”
The changes related to the moon are part of an entirely new law – the Civil Lunar Gateway Agreement Implementation Act – that would be created via the budget bill.
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