Green party leader May threatens budget delay
Saanich-Gulf Islands Green MP Elizabeth May is threatening to hold up a vote on the Conservatives' sweeping budget bill for days if the prime minister won't consider breaking it up into related items.
May said the federal government's sweeping budget bill - which includes changes affecting everything from Old Age Pensions to oversight of the Canadian Security Intelligence Agency - would change Canada's environmental regulations, laws and policies for the worse.
"I think the Conservatives may want to rethink insisting that this whole bill go forward as an omnibus bill covering 70 acts," May said.
"I will not back down," she said. "We could be there for days."
http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Green+party+leader+threatens+budget+delay/6605103/story.html
http://saltspringnews.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=22461
http://www.rcinet.ca/english/column/the-link-s-top-stories/15-14_2012-05-29-interview-with-green-party-leader-elizabeth-may/
Opposition aims to disrupt passage of omnibus Tory budget bill
- Grant U.S. law-enforcement agents, such as those from the FBI, the same powers as members of the RCMP in cases where they are working together on cross-border operations.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/opposition-aims-to-disrupt-passage-of-omnibus-tory-budget-bill/article2446013/
