CP: Worrisome trend found in Parliament sitting less, expert says

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OTTAWA—Canada’s MPs are spending less time at work in the House of Commons — only 119 days this year — and passing ever fewer bills.

It’s a trend that at least one parliamentary procedure expert finds worrying.

“In terms of the last 40 years, our Parliament is sitting a lot less and doing a lot less,” says Queen’s University political scientist Ned Franks.

Franks says governments have compensated for prolonged parliamentary timeouts by increasingly cramming all manner of unrelated legislation into massive omnibus bills, which allow for little individual scrutiny of the various measures.

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