The NDP have unilaterally declared debates over multiple times in the past few years.
Opposition critic Todd Stone stood up early Tuesday afternoon and pleaded with the NDP government not to shut down debate on the hotly contested bill that rewrites the oversight of lawyers in B.C.
So the now-routine parliamentary move was executed late Wednesday night in the face of the usual protests from opposition MLAs, but with a minimum of fuss.Stone was speaking at a point where MLAs were arguing about the seventh of more than 300 clauses, with only two days left before the legislature adjourns. “There is no way that this bill will receive the scrutiny that it requires, that it demands,” Stone said. It was passed after just 30 of 317 clauses were debated.
The number of lawyers is diminished, depending on some variables, and two of the 17 on the new roster must be Indigenous. So the line of attack that developed as soon as the bill was introduced centred on the idea that the NDP was attacking their independence and taking control of the legal system. It violated all the NDP tenets about union rights and antagonized the key staff members in their own government, to boot.
He said the latest objection from the Canadian Bar Association says it has held 13 consultation sessions and all of them underscored the continuing concern about many clauses in the bill.
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