Finance Minister Jim Flaherty: Omnibus Budget Bills

omnibus budget bills: The Conservatives faced intense criticism over their so-called omnibus budget bills last year, which were stuffed with a laundry list of policy measures, including controversial changes to environmental monitoring, according to 660 News. This years version is more modest in length, and Flaherty promised that sections would be studied by different parliamentary committees and OTTAWA Finance Minister Jim Flaherty tabled a trimmed-down budget bill Monday that he promised would face the proper parliamentary scrutiny, but the official opposition says the legislation still needs to be chopped up. The NDP and the Liberals introduced more than 1,000 amendments to the 2012 bill to register dismay with both the process and the content. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.