Bill C-48 passed in late night sitting (Canada)

[Canadian Socialist]

Last Updated Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:53:19 EDT
CBC News

The Liberals scored a quick and decisive victory on Thursday night, catching the Conservatives off guard and passing their controversial Bill C-48.

The bill passed third reading by a vote of 152 to 147. Losing the vote would have automatically triggered a federal election.

With a number of Conservative members missing, the Liberals moved a motion to cut off debate and bring the bill to a vote. C-48 is the NDP amendment to the budget that adds a further $4.6 billion in social spending and the Conservatives were dead set against it.
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YES! Now on to C-38, the SSM bill. I Luv!!!!1111!!! Jack Layton.

[GirlinContempt]

1. It's pretty hot shit`

[Maple]

2. CTV said

the Tories were not just outfoxed...but nuked! :D

[Canadian Socialist]

3. Harper is too busy

flippin' burgers.:puke:

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[Maple]

4. Well tonight

he'll be kicking every chair in Stornoway! Twice! :bounce:

[lovuian]

5. Lucky Canadians!!! Your Liberals fight for you!!!!!!!

our Moderates shake hands with the enemy!!!

[Maple]

6. Well I can guarantee

there'll be no hand shaking. :D

Next up is the same sex marriage bill. A lot of drivel in the debate, but the govt has the numbers to win it.

Which is what all this Tory obstructionism has been about.

[Canadian Socialist]

7. kick

and please nominate. Vote, and vote often <lol>. Because it's not only important to Canadian citizens, it might actually drag the American government into the 20th century (no, not a typo... baby steps people. baby steps).

[LynnTheDem]

18. "20th century; baby steps"...

:rofl:

[Sugarbleus]

8. Good going Canada!!

Wishing you liberal/progressive folks the UPPER hand in all your endeavors. :toast: :applause:

[Spazito]

9. Holy crap, I missed it!

Thanks for the post! I love that slimebag Harper was foiled yet again! It is leading up to a 'night of long knives' for Stevie, the faux cons should be ratcheting up the infighting very soon.

[Maple]

11. At the rate Harper is going

he won't have to worry about flipping any burgers. :D

[daleo]

10. I wonder if this was really a matter of catching Conservatives off guard?

It seems to me they might well have wanted this outcome - they got to talk tough about forcing an election without actually having one, which might well have badly damaged them. After all, their poll numbers have been tanking, and the "buckets of Grewal" thing wouldn't help matters. In other words, they might have been caught off guard on purpose. Now they can blame this on Liberal perfidy and slink off to the barbecue circuit.

Of course there is still the same sex marriage bill to be passed.

[Maple]

12. Entirely possible

Politics is mostly theater after all.

However, now they have to make a last-ditch effort on SSM and the govt already has the numbers to pass that as far as anybody can tell.

[Spazito]

13. Same sex marriage will pass easily, the Libs, NDP and Bloc

all support it so it will only be the faux cons and around 30 Libs voting against. The cons knew a forced election would not go over well with the public but they also wanted same sex marriage to be an election issue, they were between a rock and a hard place and I love it.

[Maple]

14. Yeah it passed second reading

163-138 so they shouldn't have a problem with it.

[daleo]

15. Harper can fire up the barbecue and start tossing the Frisbees

His electoral doom is postponed until the fall, I think.

[Canuck55]

16. Love the outcome..

but it still smacks of parliamentary tricks.

[Maple]

17. Standard rules

They're available for everyone to read, and in a minority govt you never get too far from the Hill.

Harper can't count any better than Joe Clark could.

[applegrove]

19. Liberals have the Tories #. They figured out 'how far ahead the Harperites

plan'. Why should the Liberals play by the old rules if the Tories are not? Bet we see the Tories in a free-fall as they cannot honestly talk about policy - and Canadians hate liars.

[rabbit2484]

22. "Canadians hate liars"

Must be nice to live where the truth matters to people.

[applegrove]

23. U.S. used to be the place of straight talk. But that was back at the time

when the leaders were self-made and not elites. Character was valued.

Sorry for you.

[drduffy]

20. If only they could..

rescind the agreements to return draft dodgers back to the Empire.

[ReadTomPaine]

21. Hey could you folks bottle some of that and send it south?

[rodeodance]

24. usually it is the Repugs who do stunts like this in the US (to our demise)