C-10: The end is in sight, one way or another

By Denis Carmel OTTAWA – A couple of hours before the House of Commons held a vote confirming the time which the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage can study Bill C-10 will now be limited, the committee held its Monday meeting and continued to spin its wheels. Nominally, Monday’s meeting was scheduled as a return to clause-by-clause consideration of the bill, but the committee first voted unanimously against a Green Party amendment which was discussed for two hours last Friday, and then defeated an NDP motion to continue meetings into the summer. That motion, by NDP member Heather MacPherson, proposed...