Well, hello hello hello, and welcome back to Episode no. ???? (I stopped counting) of our Senate bingewatching party.
May 2, 2017 - what will happen today
- As of right now, the Senate is discussing Senator Lang's amendment regarding citizenship revocation for terrorists.
- Around 3:30, Ahmed Hussen, the Minister for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, will come to the chamber at the request of the Conservative caucus where he is expected to be asked questions about this amendmend.
- Most likely, Senators will vote either today or tomorrow on this amendment. It can be expected that it will be again by a roll call.
- Currently, there are no hints regarding another amendment coming up. So this might (might!) be the last amendment to deal with which means that they will finally get back to discussing bill C-6 in it's third reading.
This means under the most ideal circumstances, they will vote on third reading tomorrow and - if it passes - send it back to the HoC. However these are the ideal circumstances. It might very well be that there are additional delays due to more amendments we haven't heard of or simply due to Senate scheduling. But it seems safe to say that this is a matter of days.
I also want to recall that there is a non-binding agreement between the Senators to finish this bill by tomorrow, May 3rd.