Conservative senators are being blamed for running out the parliamentary clock on a number of bills, including several aimed at advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples.
A Senate committee says the Trudeau government's bill to ban oil tanker traffic off British Columbia's northern coast should be scrapped because it will divide the country, inflame separatist sentiment in Alberta and stoke resentment of Indigenous Peoples.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says governments need to be wary of taking steps to regulate social media platforms that could be used by authoritarian regimes to further oppress citizens and stifle free speech.
The Liberals used their majority on a House of Commons committee on Thursday, May 16, 2019, to block an opposition attempt to launch an inquiry into the failed prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman.
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says he supported the chief of defence staff's decision to suspend Vice-Admiral Mark Norman in 2017, more than a year before he was charged with breach of trust for allegedly leaking government secrets about military procurement.
Politicians are increasingly concerned that social media giants have become so big, powerful and rich that they are effectively above the law — at least in a small country like Canada.
Lynn Beyak cast herself as a defender of free speech and a victim of political correctness moments before senators voted summarily on Thursday, May 9, 2019, to suspend her without pay from the Senate for refusing to delete derogatory letters about Indigenous people from her website.
