Canada's parliamentary backlog may serve as trigger for early election
- 4 years ago
Canada's first budget in two years looks set to join a pile of stalled bills in a Parliament besieged by partisan squabbling, a logjam that could be the trigger Prime Minister Justin Trudeau uses to call an early election.
Trudeau's Liberals have a minority of seats in the House of Commons and must rely on other parties to govern. They complain that the Conservatives, the largest opposition party, are blocking key bills as the COVID-19 pandemic still rages.
"In recent months the Conservatives have been delaying legislation to the point where their tactics have turned into obstruction. That must end," Liberal House Leader Pablo Rodriguez said in a statement to Reuters on Thursday.
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