OTTAWA – The House of Commons full powers were pushed to the side Tuesday leaving parliament on the sidelines until September.
But the committee does not come with the full powers MPs normally enjoy. Opposition days, where the other parties are able to set the agenda, would be postponed until September, as would any private member’s bills. “Parliament must meet. Its role and its place are fundamental. This house, our elected legislature is the beating heart of our democratic government,” he said when debate began on the measure on Monday. “This house is an essential service to the country and we its members are essential workers.”
“We’ve had three days a week of sessions where the Opposition can bring forward their questions, make their suggestions and demonstrate to all Canadians that our institutions continue to function,” he said. We know that continuing that approach now four days a week will be important to continue to respond to this extraordinary challenge of our time.”
No point in telling Canadians to get off the cerb funding and go back to work. Too dangerous for the parliamentary circus performers to do their job, so we might as well all hide in our basements until the country is completely broke. Thanks E.Canada for electing the moron again!
The Liberal government is disgusting!
You are too busy JustinTrudeau to govern our country. But not too busy to host a bunch of UN visitors. notmyprimeminister
How to be a majority while a minority - a novel by supreme commander JustinTrudeau
Cut their paycheques off.
Tired of hearing the Cons fake outrage at a reduced Parliament? This from the party whom prorogued Parliament four times.
Wow, so no parliament but schools can go back? Jesus
Of course..the NDP are an extension of the Liberals...they are not a separate party...the Gov is so corrupt, it’s pathetic
Well since you will not be available for work please return your pay. And since you are unavailable to work when your job is available, you sir do not qualify for employment insurance.
WTF
Time to get work safe in there and do a risk assessment, that will clear it up fast. Many are milking this and Trudeau is setting the example of it.
Gunn53 Ridiculous. Chairman Mao would be proud.
This is insane
You mean to say with the help of the media , don’t you .
This is the garbage that goes on when all the parties sell out, and grab a hold of the relative morality of the age. The conservatives left their original traditional roots and went to ward what is called a LIBERAL LITE Ideology. We need to go back to our Christian roots.
Liberal and ndp are doing pay to play schemes
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Trudeau is afraid of his government collapsing as it should !so of course September ! He’s such a COWARD !
kgsecord
Convenient. Waiting until after summer
We are fighting a pandemic. That means on top of dealing with that our government still has a country to run. So let’s shut down parliament? There’s more to do, not less. This is not the time for a holiday. If PM JT and the rest of his crew don’t want to work then resign.
Who will be voting NDP in the next election? They are as lawless as the Liberals.
Loosers
CPCNDGWest This particular government has voted itself non-essential. After what I’ve witnessed last 5 years, I agree
Everything to escape doing their job. NDP is the puppet of Trudeau
casperthemedic BOHICA
Canada is on the Venezuela fast track.
What are they? School girls? This is insane. I think Canada is the only supposedly democratic country in the world who feels they can run without parliment.😡 AlbertaSeparation
Summer shut down, parties do it every year for the last 100 years....
Great....well at least he will have time for a haircut....
I am to the point we are to far gone, the population is brainwashed you can’t even have a conversation it’s so bipartisan this complete joke of a leader could be filmed kicking a baby in the face and somehow media would spin it in his favour, I say fuck it let them burn it down
One small step for man, one giant leap for communist rule. TrudeauDictatorship cdnpoli TrudeauMustGo TrudeauNotFitForOffice
Heil the Turd Reich!
Well they should suspend pay then too.
This isn’t shocking to me at all. They don’t want to work. Look at how many breaks they have taken. Dear Liberals, if you want to put Canadians back to work, then you are the ones who also need to show up and work!!!
And these our politicians are advocating 10 sick paid days? Think they’re also the ones digging into the Wage Subsidy. I think all of Canada should also be allowed this postpone work. Canada cdnpoli
Ridiculous. Kick the incompetent fool out of office!!!!!
I remember clearly how the lieberals cried and moaned and pissed themselves when Harper prorogued parliament. Yet here they are doing basically the same thing and putting us taxpayers a trillion dollars in debt whereas Harper had us practically debt free. He never bought votes
Seniors in long term care homes will have to wait longer for Fed support.
I think Jagmeet has just proven he can not handle rejection just like his buddy Justin they don’t vote for me so I will do anything to destroy them.
Wow! Unbelievable.....
The end of democracy and the best the media can do is 'Liberals postpone parliament'. Shame on you
Such bullshit!!!
casperthemedic Why does the MSM support this party? Is it the money? Do they all think THEY will be the only State sponsored media once the dust settles? Or are they just out of touch imbeciles?
Boi this is a great sign for the rest of Canada 😢
DEMOCRACY IS DEAD!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🇨🇦🔥🔥🔥 TrudeauMustGo liberalsmustgo cdnpoli
STILL NO COVID SUPPORT FOR THE HANDICAP! HYPOCRITE GOVERNMENTS.
Is Trudeau preparing for his election in September?
This should be an outrage to all Canadians who value democracy.
JustinTrudeau : the country's fucked, so, let's take the summer off. gmbutts and I will take over!
JustinTrudeau is a coward. He arrogantly attempts to go hide his incompetence by going to hide under a rock. Every Canadian knows this and will remember come next election.
Nothing but dirty useless hypocrites. The left in one sentence.
JustinTrudeau CanadianPM The worst Priminister in Canadian history.
Dysfunctional
Surely something can be done to stop this farce. This country is heading down the same road as Venezuela and Trudeau is acting as a despot running the country on a minority vote of the people.
Come on Liberals! Are you going to put up with this ?
Seems like the DearLeader is setting up for a BasicDictatorship MailInVoting & Fixing the election for complete control of Canadistan. Are you awake yet Patriots or are we simply going to slide into SocialismKills
Wtf. Didnt the liberals cry foul when harper did something like this but its ok for them?
We have a bunch of globalist traitors in Ottawa!
What a bunch of crooks.
The ones that voted for these cowards are to blame.
Canada, a savvy shopper, gets what it pays for.
Why democracy when you don't have to, amirite? 😠
Cowards
They can all take a 25% pay cut then. They’d still be making too much.
This is called Canada democracy?
Virtually everyone in the country will be back to work next month except for them. This is just unreal. Why are Canadians so accepting of this behaviour?
Trudeau buys off everyone he can to suit his needs.
Why are we paying these lazy criminals!
ShameOnYou all incompetent MPs.
If they don’t want to work, they should resign and go on EI ..
peteypopetey what is agend 21 and 30 ..think
Hope all you Torontarians enjoy communism. Democracy is dead in Canada.
theJagmeetSingh just resign and move in with Justin. He needs a new wife
This is SO wrong!!! How on earth can this happen
And the Bloc (yes we have to admit it).
ghkodiak Very disappointed NDP. I had higher hopes for the party that suppprts the “working man”. Now people have warrant to their Union comments, where I fought visciously for us before, I must give up.
JustinTrudeau is HITLER
MooseMan1956 Corrupt Liberals with the help of lazy NDP take a summer siesta while Provinces deal with covid and economic implosion. badhire TrudeauMustGo
Katie, Butt's, Justin, Singh, Horvath and a trip down memory lane . Selling your soul over Auto Insurance to the Liberal Party pushing Green Energy and Neglecting Long Term Health Care . Congratulations for taking the bait Singh . Fate is the hunter !
You don't have to be conservative to understand that this is a direct attack on Canadian Constitutional Democracy. Trudeau has a dictatorship for the next four months. And, after that what reason will he extend it? Where is our budget?
It’s a bought and paid for move
Disgusting! Why have elected officials if they won’t do their jobs? canadians should be outraged Canada cdnpoli TrudeauDictatorship
Communism
Does Moronic Trudeau ever work!!! Will he still be in hiding till Sep! No budget no plan no recovery no democracy. Perfect for our comrade. More time to lobby for the UN seat!!! Less questions to answer!!
Here is th devil in disguise. Singh just sold his soul and showed us all what a weakling hw really is.
Look at all the Liberals here sayin... 'Well Harper did it and you were okay with it.' Yeah neato, Now the Liberals are doin it and ya didn't like it when Harper did this... But here you are defending it cause it's your team... Hypocrites, the lot of ya!
Collusion at its finest. cdnpoli
This is not a healthy thing for country regardless of political leanings
Beyond Brutal! They should be able to drive us in to a Venezuela North situation well before then!!
Do their paychecks stop now?
Wow, unbelievable! Yet so damn believable, what a sham! TrudeauDictatorship TrudeauMustGo fuck
Federal government is trash
So everyone was just as upset when Harper did it-3 times?
THIS MEANS WAR
WTFFFFFF
That’s because he acting like a dictator and he doesn’t really have to Listen to anyone. What we’re saying about Trudeau my parents said about his father in the 80s before he put us in a bad recession. Really not good.
So ridiculous!
Bloody sickening. Cowards cdnpoli
inky_mark Quid pro quo in our corrupt government. Sickening.
don_furious Take the summer off and relax for a few months.
This isn’t a right or left issue. This is a what the F are we doing issue? Whatever logic we had left is on its way out....
Cowards all of them
An endorsed dictatorship then?
This is DISGRACEFUL. theJagmeetSingh , JustinTrudeau you betrayed Canadians today.
Where the F is the media ? Where the F is our democracy, what a joke, Canada is Done !
Today the 'government' actually acknowledged that there is no need to have a government at all or at least A smaller government is required Too many MPs Useless officials
So Trudeau and his goons have pretty much declared themselves non essential personnel? What a rip off, they should be told to apply for benefits like most unemployed and remove themselves from drinking and feeding themselves from the trough
So it looks like Singh is the newest owner of I love Trudeau knee pads. Time to put them to work!
In Hong Kong they protest these kinds of issues. In Canada we send nasty tweets, pat ourselves on the back and then do nothing about it!
Outrageous.
heathrodgirs Unbelievable!
Let’s hope Canadians remember that the Liberals and NDP place such little value on democracy and parliament the next time we go to the polls.
Surfs you dude - 🏄♀️
Whoever voted for these incompetent assholes in Ontario & Quebec should be ashamed of themselves. The lack of democracy and oversight in this country should scare you more than COVID FFS! canpoli
Bunch of beach bums.
This country is becoming a dictatorship!
Essential: booze, weed, McDonalds. Non-essential: Canadian people being represented by their elected officials.
Well they are all going to be gone after July 1st so that won't last
So do they go on the cerb ? Because they should not get paid , maybe that will wake them up to our dilemma
Put them on the CERB. They are non essential and just proved it. Hopefully this will open Canadians eyes that the federal government is not needed.
End CERB now and get back to work!
traceitback 15 months? Election was only held in Oct..2019, not 2018 we sat through most of 2019 and into 2020 We also sat 1 day a week, plus 338MP sit in video, and committee's which are still running Pandemic, not a detainee issue, or other human rights violations Harper had
Can we get a substitute leader or something? Outsource the job to a temp agency
The NDP. What is their purpose? To pretend they have some power because they are broke. Like the Horwath NDP in Ontario, always doing the Liberals' bidding.
This is ridiculous. How can any Liberal or NDP member of parliament look at themselves in the mirror each morning? They have just robbed us of our charter rights to have representatives working for us . Abominable
Economy is reopening. If Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes and Costco can figure it out...then why couldn't this asshole? resumeparliament
Took that right from Harpers playbook
Singh is a traitor!!! How can you suspend parliament and support the bloody liberals Shame on hin
MariaK46861456 This is a fucking disgrace
CPC_HQ
Time for CERB it seems as they just voted themselves nonessential, what a relief to us tax payers.
Disgusting.
Remember when the Tories prorogued Parliament? Because this is essentially Trudeau and Singh doing the same thing. Bet the media won't mind another three weeks of COVID Cottage, though.
Charter of Rights and Freedoms set aside, Parliament suspended, Emergency powers granted, 99% of media bought and paid for... what could possibly go wrong?
Progressive communists want the summer and beyond off.
This is not right, amazing people are ok with this
It's good to have confirmation now. Our government is not an essential service....Hmmm......?
Revolution, the French did it when they got pissed, all we do is piss an moan on Twitter
And the bloc
What is the annual payroll for this none-existing parliament. All MPs added together for 2020. Including the annual raise they just gave themselves. How are things in the senate these days? Anyone showing up for work?
Meh... at least we get sick pay?!
punditclass How fing gross...
Canada deserves this. Conservatives and Canadian kindness to the world set the stage for this abomination to be a reality. Reaping what has been sowed for decades now.
But of course! This is just as good as running a majority for Poutine, he will stretch this out forever...
Leaving an unqualified JustinTrudeau basically unsupervised is going to cost a few hundred billion more than he’s already spent. TrudeauMustGo
Apparently, JustinTrudeau would prefer not to work but continue to get paid. With “leadership” like this, it’s not surprising Canadians are following his lead and accepting the CERB free money to sit at home rather than take available jobs. Dear leader! cdnpoli
Not even working remotely? Are they going on EI or are we paying full salaries while they chillax...
Shame. Remember this next election
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Government still functions, I wish you all would have put up this fight when Harper Prorogued parliament 4 times to get himself out of jams... Funny how you cons care now that there is a pandemic going on... cndpoli Poor Scheer,no soapbox, he'll be in the back benches in Sept
This clown need to go TrudeauMustGo TrudeauDictatorship TrudeauWorstPM
NDP despicable
Looking forward to the grilling that the Trudeau Liberals will get from the Canadian MSM. Oh, right ... never mind.
Holy f*** Alberta we gotta wake up! We need out of this shit. JustinTrudeau is an absolute disgrace. As comments on the website state, may he rot in hell. That goes for all of them. TrudeauWorstPM TrudeauDictatorship
Berniceness 🙏🇨🇦🙏
punditclass This is disgusting. Blackface is already the laziest PM on record now he can have the summer off and not be held accountable.
So then they should forgo all their salaries since they won’t be working. They are lower than my dog 💩
Of course...they haven't worked all year, why start now.
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