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C-11: the Heritage Committee is still debating—not broadcasting but procedure

By Denis Carmel OTTAWA – Today, the Heritage Committee started by hearing witnesses and, at some point, one member from the government side introduced a motion to set a deadline for the filing of amendments to Bill C-11. I know I am being repetitive, since it has been the third time this motion has been discussed without resolution. Then, a Conservative member introduced an amendment to extend the deadline, and spoke to it at length, clearly dragging the puck – to the point where the Minister of Canadian Heritage who had come to speak to the legislation he sponsors had...