Liberals to Reject Most Senate Amendments to Impact Assessment Act – The Energy Mix
“In a notice posted overnight, the government outlined its own
amendments, which include many that were put forward by the Independent
Senators’ Group (ISG) but virtually none of the Conservatives ones,” the
Globe and Mail reports. The ISG formed in March 2016 to promote a “functioning independent, non-partisan Senate”, became
the biggest bloc in the Red Chamber in 2017, has held a voting majority
since 2018, and put forward its share of amendments after the Senate
Transport Committee, led by fiercely partisan Chair David Tkachuk (C,
SK), spent more than a year dissecting and essentially campaigning against C-69.