“I'm filling time with kind words and saying nothing anyone could pin down later. I want you to do irrelevant work instead of asking hard questions. Tomorrow we will debate a bill about elections. Next week we will debate some other bills.”
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A bill to amend Canada's election laws, adding new restrictions on things like foreign influence and false election information, and changing some rules around political donations and election administration. In debate, MPs mostly talked about unrelated topics like inflation and their weekend plans, rather than substantive discussion of the long list of election law changes in the actual bill.