In what the Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons called an “unprecedented situation” Andrew Scheer ruled that a private members bill that had been extensively rewritten by government MPs and approved, could not proceed and would be dropped from the order paper, because independent MP Brent Rathgeber refused concurrence with the bill since it no longer resembled what he had proposed.
RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda has a report.
More information:
CBC/Kady O’Malley – Speaker agrees to drop bill rewritten by government – here
Macleans/Aaron Wherry – Brent Rathgeber kills what used to be his bill – here
Parliamentary video (at about 18:25) – here
Hansard (text) – here
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