Trudeau Government’s Bad Habit: Jamming Major Criminal Code Changes into Budget Implementation Acts

The Trudeau Government needs to break their bad habit: they keep putting major Criminal Code changes into massive Budget Implementation Acts.

This means the Senate has limited time to study + really can’t amend them.

Let’s recall how the SNC Lavalin scandal started: the Trudeau Government jammed Deferred Prosecution Agreements into a BIA.

As the Senate Legal Committee’s Deputy Chair, I told the Finance committee about some of the big problems in this year’s BIA Bill C-69: