As the spring sitting of Parliament winds down, the government has decided to be maximally ham-fisted in order to ram through several bills for no good reason at all. In the Commons, they put through a programming motion to speed through the lawful access bill (which, to be clear, is a very bad bill that is going to get struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada), but this motion was full of procedural fuckery, including retroactive deadlines on amendments, and no time to debate the amendments that they did have prepared, so they were going to be straight up-down votes, because they insist that this pass the Commons before they rise, even though the Senate is not going to look at it until the fall. Why the rush? Because they are reaching the kinds of arrogance that is the usual Achilles heel of the Liberals, and it’s going to cost them.
This is exactly the Liberal arrogance that always, without fail, comes to bite them in the ass.
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T01:19:27.773Z
Over on the Senate side, they have also put through a programming motion on three bills that the government insists they need passed before the summer, but this motion essentially gives these complex pieces of legislation a single day of study at committee at which point they are deemed to have passed, no matter if they vote or not. That’s absolutely insane, and quite frankly abusive, and is contemptuous of the job the Senate is supposed to be doing. But this is how Carney and his crew have decided they want to treat Parliament. I would say it’s unbelievable, but no, we’ve come to expect this kind of behaviour, and it needs to be callsed out.
Ukraine Dispatch:
Russian bomb attacks on Sloviansk killed three, while a drone attack on Zaporizhzhia killed one. Ukrainian drone strikes suspended operations at a Moscow refinery after starting a fire. The thousand-year-old monastery in Kyiv is estimated to take two years to repair after this weekend’s attack.
Noteworthy:
- Bob Rae contrasts the current G7 meeting in Evian, France, with the international meeting held there in 1938, and how global ruptures and failures echo in both.
- Paul Wells muses about the ways in which the political situation for Carney will change over the summer, and the notion about “building” as national unity.
It will do nothing so long as premiers continue to underfund their justice systems, and in making these changes, Carney has ensured he will be blamed for all future failures of the bail system going forward.Congratulations. You just played yourself.
— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) 2026-06-16T13:45:32.396Z
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