Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending the decision to suspend all regular sittings of the House of Commons until September, with the special all-party COVID-19 committee acting as a stand-in over the next few weeks, and then four special House sittings over the summer.
Trudeau told reporters on Wednesday that he thinks under the hybrid model that’s been adopted— where a limited number of MPs participate in-person inside the House of Commons in Ottawa, while the remaining representatives are shown from their ridings on two large video screens on either side of the Speaker’s chair—Parliament is still working.
“Going forward, we will now sit four times a week and there’ll be more than double the usual time for questions from MPs,” he continued, adding that this new format allows MPs from across the country to participate without having to travel to Ottawa. Trudeau, outgoing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh took part in-person.
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