What's the Delay?

 

My understanding is that the Emergency Act must be voted on tomorrow, because the House is going away for a week, and it must be approved within seven days. Yet the Conservative House leader co9mplained this evening that he had not yet been shown the bill. It had been promised for this morning.

The obvious explanation for this is that the government is now afraid it will not pass, or afraid it is a mistake. There may be furious negotiations going on within their caucus, or with the NDP.

If it does come down, some members may find here a safe, uncontroversial “öff ramp” to vote against it—on the grounds that the  government did not give them enough time to examine it.