April 3 – A Liberal amendment to motion No. 7 was negatived

Liberal MP Scott Brison (Kings-Hants, NS) put forward a sub-amendment to motion No.7, budgetary policy 2012, that the amendment be amended by adding after the words “ideological reasons” the following: (j) force Canadians to make tremendous sacrifices by cutting their retirement income but fails to similarly increase the qualifying age from 65 to 67 for … Read more

April 3 – An NDP amendment to Motion No. 7 was negatived

NDP MP Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminster, BC) put forward an amendment to motion No. 7, budgetary policy 2012, That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following: this House not approve the budgetary policy of this government because it will: (a) increase unemployment and fail to … Read more