{"id":30079,"date":"2014-10-31T01:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30079"},"modified":"2014-10-31T01:22:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:22:30","slug":"ndp-members-use-procedural-stall-tactics-to-stage-committee-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/31\/ndp-members-use-procedural-stall-tactics-to-stage-committee-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP members use procedural stall tactics to stage committee protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NDP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4536\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NDP.jpg\" alt=\"NDP\" width=\"800\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NDP.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/NDP-300x80.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Several House of Commons committees have not sat since June, and others only a handful of times, because of a procedural roadblock thrown up by the NDP.<\/p>\n<p>The aboriginal affairs, ethics and access to information, government operations, industry, citizenship and natural resources committees have not met in months.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because the NDP refuses to approve a routine motion in the Commons that recomposes the committees at the beginning of every parliamentary session.<\/p>\n<p>Both the Liberals and the Conservative government attempted to pass the motion again today, but the NDP once more rejected it.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux says the NDP&#8217;s stalling has cost MPs hundreds of hours of committee study.<\/p>\n<p>NDP House Leader Peter Julian says his party is fed up with the government&#8217;s attitude towards committees and won&#8217;t budge until it believes things will change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; Several House of Commons committees have not sat since June, and others only a handful of times, because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}