Rd Parliament: Cast Votes and Move Motions

rd parliament: The suspension is for the entirety of the 43rd Parliament, according to CTV. A new Parliament is underway Sign up for our Capital Dispatch newsletter This means that parliamentary secretaries will once again be able to have the ability to be appointed to committees, act as substitutes, move motions, and cast votes around those tables. Quietly during routine proceedings on Thursday, Kevin Lamoureux, the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader got unanimous consent to suspend sections of the Standing Orders the rules of the House that had to do with the powers theses members have. In the last Parliament, the Liberals opened up and amended the House rules to make it so that parliamentary secretaries were not allowed to be voting members on House committees, an effort said to be in the name of more committee independence. When asked last week by CTVNews.ca whether or not this was a step that the government would be taking, Government House Leader Pablo Rodriguez said it was being discussed. Though now, facing the realities of a minority government where opposition parties have the majority of seats on House committees, the Liberals have backtracked on that decision. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.