Discussion · Government Orders
Elizabeth May Green
“The digital trade law should not be hidden inside this huge bill. It should be its own bill so we have time to study it properly.”
“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from York—Durham very much for drawing attention to division 8. I am going to put this to him bluntly. As I see it, in a couple of pages in an omnibus budget bill, not just a section of Bill C-39, they have created a separate piece of new legislation, the enabling digital trade act. Can the member see any reason we would not have had a separate piece of government legislation called the enabling digital trade act, with time to study it as a stand-alone piece of work, not part of an omnibus bill?”
Official Hansard
Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from York—Durham very much for drawing attention to division 8. I am going to put this to him bluntly. As I see it, in a couple of pages in an omnibus budget bill, not just a section of Bill C-39, they have created a separate piece of new legislation, the enabling digital trade act. Can the member see any reason we would not have had a separate piece of government legislation called the enabling digital trade act, with time to study it as a stand-alone piece of work, not part of an omnibus bill?