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Senators find mistakes in bill, but decide to go ahead and pass it anyway

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 Dec, 2014 02:29 PM
  • Senators find mistakes in bill, but decide to go ahead and pass it anyway

OTTAWA — The Conservative-dominated Senate is poised to pass a bill targeting labour unions, despite discovering it contains inadvertent drafting errors that must be fixed.

Conservatives have used their majority on the Senate's legal and constitutional affairs committee to reject Liberal amendments that would have corrected the mistakes in C-525.

Conservative senators argue that amending the bill would be tantamount to killing it.

A bill that is amended by the Senate must be sent back to the House of Commons for reconsideration.

Because C-525 is a private member's bill, sponsored by Conservative backbencher Blaine Calkins, it would go to the bottom of the list of bills to be dealt with by the Commons.

The bill would require a majority secret ballot vote by employees before bargaining units in federally regulated public service unions could be certified or decertified.

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