The future of a tough federal government crime bill is in question after the House of Commons sent the wrong version of the bill to Canada’s upper chamber, the Senate, reports journalist Sean Fine of the Globe and Mail newspaper.
The bill involves a key government priority – victims’ rights.
The journalist reported “Parliamentary experts say they have never heard of such an error being made before.”
The wrong version was debated in the Senate and then sent to a committee to be studied.
It’s not clear what will now happen with the bill. Journalist Sean Fine reports that the clerk of the Senate “declined to comment, or even to confirm an error had been made, and his office referred questions to the House of Commons. The deputy clerk of the Commons did not return phone calls.”
More information:
Globe and Mail/Sean Fine – Conservatives’ crime bill endangered by ‘administrative error’ – here
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