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I think that that's being a bit unfair. C-6 officially entered the Senate Chamber on June 17th last year, at its First Reading by Sen. Omidvar, so that's now coming up on ten months ago. And when the Senate isn't sitting, it's not as though the senators and their staffs are all off on...

I think that what he's getting at / implying is that if some Ottawa bureaucrat can void a dual citizen's Canadian citizenship for treasonous offences, then what could stop, in years to come, these same faceless but conventionally number-ID'd Ottawa bureaucrats from voiding dual citizens'...

I think that it's never a good sign once politicians begin making overtures to justifications & rationalisations for the possibility of imminent failure on their part. After Thursday's drama, C-6 seems to now be in real danger of degenerating into a highly regrettable political farce. She's...

How incredible that you can write such nonsense. C-24 was passed in 2014 without a single Conservative voice being raised to speak for a grandfathering-in clause to be included in that Bill on behalf of the then-current cohort of permanent residents looking forward to fulfilling their charted...

I think that Senator Omidvar sounds like a genuinely nice person, but no new senator such as she should feel that they have to humiliate themselves on the Chamber floor as she felt she had to do three weeks ago, when she basically admitted that she's no lawyer and doesn't personally quite know...

There's always a live audio-only broadcast from the Senate Chamber during their sittings. Just go on the official Senate of Canada website, go to the In The Chamber section, then scroll down to find the Listen tab towards the bottom. I listened to today's broadcast and heard them adjourn C-6...

Supposing that the Conservative caucus pushes for splitting the Bill at next week's resumption of its Third Reading debate, does anyone know whether Senators Omidvar/ McCoy have a plan worked out to go down that route without undue (i.e., yet more) agonising delay?

So I gather that Bill C-6 is now through the committee stage, with no amendments having been made (so it's apparently not going to have to go back down to the Commons), but with three "observations" having been made by the SOCI Cmte. C-6 may come up in tomorrow's Senate session, when senators...

The Bill is expected to undergo some amendments in the Senate, before then having to be returned to the House of Commons. No, the Minister cannot unilaterally pass this Bill himself; no Canadian minister (not even the PM himself, or the Queen of Canada herself) can enact any piece of...

Having rung a senator's staffer earlier today, I understand that Senate committees won't be meeting now until early February, and that the effective date for Bill C-6 will be decided by the Minister at the Third Reading in the House of Commons &/or at the Royal Assent stage.

Wow. What an incredibly pleasant surprise to come on here this evening and to read that C-6 has at long last advanced to the next stage. I'm feeling very happy tonight.

So Senator Lang's office says that he'll be speaking to Bill C-6 next week, while Senator Omidvar's office says that the Senate may not be sitting next week...

Don't give up on it yet. It's certainly an exasperating process, and its six months in the Senate this week makes one want to vote to abolish the Senate entirely, but, if we all just keep on hounding our respective senators in each of our provinces/territories, just maybe we'll get justice in...

If I understand Senate procedural rules correctly, then each senator who adjourns debate of Bill C-6 in order to speak to it then has the next fifteen (15) Senate sitting days to prepare his/her speech before he/she has to give it, according to the Senate's rules, is this an accurate...

I'm just new on here but, like other recent PRs (landed prior to Bill C-24's passage) who were adversely affected by the Harper Government's & the then-Senate's seemingly deliberate unkindnesses in pointedly choosing not to make any 'grandfathering-in' provision in Bill C-24 for then-current...