Around The Table

A Diplomat's Guide to Canada's Parliamentary Committees

Published April 6, 2005

Parliamentary committees have alternately been hailed as the unsung workhorses of the legislative process, and criticized for acting as little more than a rubber stamp for the government of the day. But with last year's election of a minority government, all that has changed. These days, the Liberals can no longer count on steering the business of committees, since the government no longer holds a majority of committee...

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