House Speaker Andrew Scheer: Federal MPs

OAS Dept: The hundreds of amendments were grouped into 157 votes by House Speaker Andrew Scheer. MPs had begun the voting process around 1 a.m. Thursday and finished 22 hours later at about 11 p.m, according to CTV. The OAS changes aren't scheduled to take effect until 2023 and federal MPs have finished a marathon 22-hour voting session on changes to the government's omnibus implementation bill, considering more than 800 amendments. Opposition MPs felt Bill C-38 was too broad in scope and had wanted it broken apart into separate pieces of legislation. They were especially concerned with faster environmental approvals of mining and oil projects, and changes to the Fisheries Act, Employment Insurance and Old Age Security. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.