Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is threatening to delay MPs' holidays by throwing up thousands of procedural motions seeking to block Liberal legislation until Prime Minister Justin Trudeau backs off his carbon tax. It's a move Government House Leader Karina Gould was quick to condemn, warning the Official Opposition leader's 'temper tantrum' tactics will impact Canadians.

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Based solely on the merit of the amendments they’ve proposed, such as changing titles or a single word, they should face some sort of punishment for wasting precious time. It’s clearly meant to do nothing but waste time and guess who pays for it?

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Speaker does that and next time it’ll be amendments created by ChatGPT. Long ones. It’s hard to have a process that cannot be weaponized or deadlocked without removing the process entirely. Or, well, relying on people being good actors.

This is kind of the fundamental weakness of our system, it relies heavily on people acting in relatively good faith.

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