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Generation Macron: Young liberal EU leaders rally behind French ‘Kennedy’ – Reuters
Posted: May 2, 2017 at 11:27 pm
BRUSSELS/PARIS If Emmanuel Macron wins Sunday's French presidential run-off, Europe's pro-EU liberals will finally have their champion.
For centrists who have been licking their wounds since Britain voted to quit the EU a year ago, the 39-year-old will be the gallant young hero who slew the most dangerous populist dragon of them all, the National Front's Marine Le Pen.
From a Paris dinner party with the young leaders of Belgium and Luxembourg, to a conspicuous Twitter bromance with Italy's ex-premier Matteo Renzi, Macron has already built a circle of likeminded peers, unafraid to promote closer EU integration at a time when voters are being tempted by the hard right and left.The young leaders present themselves as fresh faces, free of 20th-century baggage of left-right class war.
But to fulfill their dream of a reinvigorated Europe, they still need to win over leaders from the old school, above all Germany's Angela Merkel.
One senior German official said Macron's youthful stardust could give France some "Kennedy-esque" optimism. But the official also injected a skeptical note: Berlin was "willing to talk about Europe", he said, "but the discussion has to be about responsibility as well as solidarity."
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Macron discussed his plans for Europe at a private dinner party in March at the home of a French TV celebrity, attended by Belgium's 41-year-old Prime Minister Charles Michel and Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, 44.
"It was a moment for sharing our commitments on Europe," Michel told Reuters of the dinner, which was kept secret until word leaked out in April. "In the coming months, we're going to have to relaunch the European project ... and for that we will need partners."
The three men are part of the first generation of European leaders to come of age with the benefits of EU citizenship.
"We are the Erasmus generation," Michel told Reuters, referring to an EU exchange program that lets students attend universities in other countries across the bloc.
As France's youngest-ever president, Macron would step into the shoes vacated by Italy's youngest-ever prime minister, Renzi, who also took office at 39 and who stepped down last year after losing a referendum on constitutional reform.
"Bravo to @matteorenzi," Macron tweeted this week. "Together we will change Europe with all the progressives."
Renzi tweeted back: "Thank you dear Emmanuel. We are with you."
The Paris dinner party, held at Macron's invitation at the home of a TV personality Stephane Bern, a friend of Bettel, showed how the new generation of leaders is comfortable dispensing with the formality of traditional diplomacy.
"Everything's got more informal," one person familiar with the dinner said. "They've all got each other's mobile numbers. They text all the time."
Guy Verhofstadt, the liberal former Belgian prime minister, Brexit negotiator and champion of more federal EU powers, sees in Macron not just an ally who wants to end old habits of state-to-state wrangling in the EU, but an example of how social media and networking is changing policymaking -- and maybe policy too.
"Political action will completely change," Verhofstadt said.
Still, however they may be buoyed by a Macron victory, the young liberals will have a steep hill to climb to achieve a broad consensus for closer EU integration.
The historically unpopular outgoing president, Francois Hollande, failed to achieve similar aims in Europe and stands as a conspicuous example of how difficult it could be for Macron to persuade the French to back him.
All roads to EU change still run through Berlin, where proposals will be met with caution even if Merkel loses re-election this year to her center-left, EU enthusiast challenger Martin Schulz. Germans widely see French deficit spending as a threat to the euro.
Michel, Bettel and liberal Dutch premier Mark Rutte, 50, have jointly proposed an outline for EU reform to be debated after Brexit. It calls for faster integration of some states in a "multispeed Europe", an idea that Germany was long cool to but which Merkel has lately signaled she might consider.
Some senior Benelux officials hope for revival of Franco-German harmony. They see a possible "grand bargain" where former banker Macron can eventually persuade Berlin that France can be trusted not to let deficits balloon if Germany is willing to drop its resistance to backing a share of other states' debt.
A person close to Macron described the dinner on March 5 as a private meeting between like-minded young European reformers: "It was part of his European outreach efforts."
"There is common ground," he said, while stressing Macron would not limit himself to such alliances. "They support Macrons plans to inject new momentum into the European project and he supports the message sent out by the Benelux countries."
(Writing by Alastair Macdonald; editing by Peter Graff)
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday moved to ease the tension from U.S. air strikes in April against Russian ally Syria, expressing a desire for a Syrian ceasefire and safe zones for the civil war's refugees.
BERLIN German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday canceled a trip to the United States and summoned top military officials to discuss a spate of army scandals after the arrest of an officer suspected of planning a racially motivated attack.
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Opposition filibuster ends in profanity as Liberal chair adjourns meeting – CBC.ca
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An opposition filibuster, launched in response to the Liberal government's moves on parliamentary reform, ended in profanity on Tuesday as Conservative MP Scott Reid loudly objected to the Liberal chairman's decision to adjourn a meeting of the procedure and House affairs committee.
The outburst, and Reid's pursuit of Liberal MP Larry Bagnell, the chair of the committee, after the meeting, was captured by House of Commons cameras.
WARNING GRAPHIC LANGUAGE: Conservative MP outraged after Liberal chair adjourns committee meeting1:11
Conservatives and New Democrats have been filibustering the committee's proceedings since March.
But the motion that was being stymiedLiberal MP Scott Simms' attempt to have the committee study the government's reform proposalsis set to be withdrawn in light of the Liberal government's decision to proceed through other means. The committee will also soon be charged with studying a complaint by two Conservative MPs that they were recently prevented by security officers on Parliament Hill from getting to a vote in the House.
Bagnell told reporters on Wednesday that "events had sort of surpassed our discussion on that motion" and so he adjourned the scheduled meeting.
"So I adjourned and Mr. Reid was not happy," Bagnell said. "He had a bit of an outburst about being unhappy."
Bagnell on Reid's outburst at House Affairs committee1:30
On Twitter, Reid argued that Bagnell's move to adjourn contradicted his previous handling of the committee.
"This is the most grotesque abuse of a chairman's authority I've seen, in 16 years around this place," Reid tweeted.
Meanwhile, opposition MPs were separately unhappy at the government's move to end debate in the House about the actions of Hill security.
That debate, in different iterations, has tied up the House for parts of five days this month. The Liberals seemed, at one point, to have ended the debate with a procedural manoeuvre, only for the Speaker to rule that move was a matter of privilege, causing the debate to restart.
Once debate is concluded on Wednesday, the matter will be sent to Bagnell's committee for further study.
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THE POWER TO DESTROY – WND.com
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Im for making things better for everyone. And the main focus of my work is improving the lives of low-income Americans.
So why do I love the tax reform package President Trump has proposed?
Shouldnt my sympathies be with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who says these tax cuts makes life easier for the wealthy and special interests and harder for middle class and lower income Americans?
The answer is, I have been watching liberals for 25 years claim they are for the poor and then enact policies that hurt them.
Liberals think that you help Peter by taking from Paul. I think you help both Peter and Paul by creating the best possible conditions for opportunity for both of them.
How do you create the best possible conditions for opportunity for both Peter and Paul? Freedom.
Tons of data and studies show that countries that have the most economic freedom good laws that protect life and property, low taxes, nonintrusive regulation, limited government are the most prosperous. And even the poorest in these countries are far better off than the poorest in countries without economic freedom.
You dont need a Ph.D. in economics to understand that a country that punishes success is going to be less wealthy than a country that rewards it.
The last eight years under liberal control have been a disaster economically. From 1950 until 2000, on average the U.S. economy grew at 3.5 percent per year. Since 2008, it has grown barely 2 percent per year.
What does this mean? Hoover Institution economist John Cochrane points out that average American income, adjusted for inflation, grew from $16,000 in 1952 to $50,000 in 2008. If the economy over this period grew at 2 percent instead of 3.5 percent, average income in 2008 would have been $23,000 instead of $50,000.
Why the great economic slowdown after 2008? No, not because there was a recession when President Obama took over. Generally, economic recoveries have faster than usual growth, not slower. The great slowdown was because of the explosion of government, thanks to liberals. Explosion of spending, explosion of debt, explosion of regulations, explosion of taxation.
Economies, like people, thrive when they can breath, not when they are being strangled.
Why are liberals so uncomfortable with freedom? Why do they think the world needs them to control everybodys lives?
Maybe theyre just really confused. Maybe they love the power they get. Maybe, because most liberals dont accept traditional religious values, they think that they are the Creator of the Universe.
According to the Tax Foundation, the United States has the third-highest corporate tax rate out of 173 nations. Trump wants to cut the U.S. corporate tax from 35 percent to 15 percent. The result is simple. More business will come back to the U.S. and fewer will go abroad. More jobs here. Isnt that the idea?
Id like to see a business tax rate of zero in low-income urban areas.
In 2013, Obama did what liberals claim needs to be done. Tax the rich. Taxes were raised on the highest-income earners, and another new tax was levied on investment income of the highest-income earners. This was supposed to bring in $650 billion over 10 years in tax revenue. Instead, because of slower economic growth, estimates are, according to former Sen. Phil Gramm, that revenues will be five times lower than this.
Free people create and produce. Politicians and bureaucrats produce hot air.
Does Schumer really want to help the poor do better under freedom? I invite him to stop sending federal money to Planned Parenthood abortion clinics and to start talking about the importance of family and traditional values that the welfare state has wiped out in inner cities.
The Trump plan to cut business and personal taxes is great for Americans of all backgrounds.
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College business programs look to the liberal arts model – Marketplace – Marketplace.org
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ByAmy Scott
May 02, 2017 | 6:46 AM
A few dozen professors are packed into a lecture hall at Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Theyre here from schools all over the country to talk about how to bring the critical thinking and creativity associated with the liberal arts into their business programs.
Traditional business programs really tend to be taught from a single standpoint, usually a managerial standpoint, said Jeffrey Nesteruk, a professor of legal studies at Franklin & Marshall. What we strive to do is to teach these same subjects but from multiple standpoints.
Nesteruk is leading research to help colleges from the University of Pennsylvania to Mount Holyoke transform the traditional model of a business major.
So for instance in finance, the model says the role of the firm is the maximization of shareholder wealth, he said.
In a typical finance class, you might accept that at face value and move on to figuring out how firms maximize wealth. Not at F&M.
We linger over that assumption, he said. Why is that the purpose of the firm? Are there different purposes? What is served if you think of the firm that way? What is taken away?
And how's this for breaking the mold? An entrepreneurship professor has teamed up with an improvisational dance instructor to teach a course on creativity. Another class combines literature and sustainable food production.
Business is the most popular undergraduate major in the country, but employers often complain that todays graduates dont have enough critical thinking, writing, and communication skills the sort of skills you might develop by studying, say, literature or history.
The Business and Society Program of the Aspen Institute co-sponsored the workshop. The goal isnt only to produce more employable graduates, said associate director Claire Preisser, but more responsible business leaders.
One way we try to achieve that is by influencing what new and future business leaders learn in their formal education, she said.
Students also want their careers to have meaning and social impact, said Kendy Hess, an associate professor of philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, and theyre increasingly discontent with government as the main driver of social change.
So people who want to fix things are more and more drawn to business as the place where you can get things done, she said.
At a time when all colleges are under pressure to launch their graduates into productive careers, business has a lot to offer the liberal arts, too, said Hess.
At the very least, internships and experiences and a chance to take all of this knowledge and information and understanding and dialogue, and try to use it, she said.
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Living ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ courtesy of the secular liberal elites of LA – Los Angeles Times
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Ive lost count of the articles Ive read about Hulus adaptation of Margaret Atwoods 1985 novel The Handmaids Tale that used the word timely. Timely, that is, in the sense of the presidency of Donald Trump. Heres just a short list of print and online outlets where the T-word appears in connection with the re-creation of Atwoods fictional America turned into a grim theocracy called Gilead that treats women like breeding cattle: the Hollywood Reporter, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Mother Jones, Harpers Bazaar, the Daily Beast, Bustle, NPR, and CNN. The 77-year-old Atwood herself chimed in, telling the Los Angeles Times Patt Morrison: Were no longer making fiction were making a documentary.
The idea, in these mostly liberal media outlets, seems to be that under President Trump, America has become or will become terrifyingly soon a militant Bible-based patriarchy (hello Texas, hello Mike Pence) in which women have no rights, especially no reproductive rights, and are divided into rigidly stratified social classes whose very names give their status away: privileged, churchy Wives at the top, Econowives in the lower social orders, and cook-and-bottle-washer Marthas who do the housework for the Wives and their powerful husbands, the Commanders.
At the very bottom are Handmaids, political pariahs (wrong ideas, such as feminism) who become the literal property of the top-dog men and are forced to bear their children. (The Wives suffer from environmental pollution-related fertility problems.) As the New Republics Sarah Jones, one of the timely crowd, explains, Of course, we dont divide women into classes of Marthas, Handmaids, Econowives, and Wives; we call them the help, surrogates, the working class, and the one percent.
At first I scoffed. There couldnt be any more unlikely a theocrat than Trump, what with his misquotes from the Bible and speculation that he hasnt been in a church more than twice since the inauguration. But then I realized that the liberal paranoiacs were right. Except not in the way they think. Instead of seeing Atwoods fictional Gilead as a near-future militant fundamentalist Christian elite dystopia, we should see it as the mostly secularist elite dystopia we live in right now.
Take those elite-class Wives. Liberals typically assume the 1% consists of striped-pants tycoons off the Monopoly board who reliably vote Republican and want to cram retrograde religious ideas down peoples throats. In fact, as social scientists (Charles Murray in Coming Apart) and political analysts (Michael Barone, writing recently for the Capital Research Center) have observed, its the Democratic Party thats the party of the 1%: the tech and finance billionaires, the media and entertainment moguls who cluster in expensive ZIP Codes around metropolitan Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Washington.
Those folks arent known for their church-going, and they vote in favor of liberal social and economic causes from abortion and immigration rights to sustainable energy to higher taxes. They contribute heavily to political campaign, and with their upper-middle-class epigones they run the culture, deciding who gets banned on Twitter, which kinds of diversity are allowed on campuses, and what television programs well be allowed to see. Todays overclass Wives typically hold Ivy League degrees, lean in to high-status careers, and stand with Planned Parenthood.
We also have a rigidly defined caste of Marthas (and Marthos, their male counterparts), because the Wives and their high-earning husbands need them to mop their floors, care for their children, mow their lawns and trim their trees, all for bargain-basement wages. And so we have the irony of Malibu declaring itself a sanctuary city out of solidarity with its servant class, many of whom are in the country illegally, who cant afford to live anywhere near their wealthy and high-minded masters and mistresses.
Finally, the Handmaids. As in the fictional Gilead, real-life elite-class Wives have something of a fertility problem, although its related not to environmental degradation but delayed marriages and childbearing attempts of women who pursue high-power careers. Thanks to 30 years of advances in egg-transfer technology since Atwood published her novel, todays gestational surrogates dont have to get into embarrassing threesome sexual positions with the Commanders and their Wives in order to do their jobs. And they tend to be drawn not from the ranks of political dissidents, but from the financially strapped Econowife class (military bases are common surrogate-recruiting centers) who are willing to put up with a years worth of uncomfortable hormone treatments and possible pregnancy problems for the $40,000 or so that they receive.
Still, as in Gilead, there is definitely a class of female pariahs on whom the elites heap condescension, contempt and, when they can, punishment for holding views at variance with what the elites deem correct. Theyre not called Handmaids, of course. Theyre called Deplorables. Try telling the other people in your book club that you sent a check to the Donalds campaign. Or, if you need a misogyny fix, search for the phrase women who voted for Trump on Twitter. Read up on what theyre saying about Kellyanne Conway at Jezebel. Or Ann Coulter just about anywhere. Those ugly white bonnets the Handmaids of Gilead are required to wear in the Hulu miniseries look downright benign by comparison.
Yes, The Handmaids Tale is a documentary, all right. It just doesnt happen to be the documentary that the liberals think it is.
Washington-based Charlotte Allen writes about social and cultural issues.
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A Refuge for Liberal Values Beneath a Stern Victorian Gaze – New York Times
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New York Times | A Refuge for Liberal Values Beneath a Stern Victorian Gaze New York Times Four times prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone was first elected to Parliament in 1832, age 23, as a Tory, but he became leader of the Liberal party in 1867, expanding the voting franchise and championing Irish home rule. Whereas his archrival ... |
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Labour boss defends himself over BC Liberal accusations – Times Colonist
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United Steelworkers International President Leo Gerard speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, to announce an effort to track jobs leaving the U.S. The international president of the United Steelworkers Union says claims by British Columbia Liberal Leader Christy Clark that he supports U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood are lies. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Evan Vucci
VANCOUVER The international president of the United Steelworkers Union says claims by British Columbia Liberal Leader Christy Clark that he supports U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood are lies.
Leo Gerard says his members know he's been fighting for them on both sides of the border.
Gerard says he questions if Clark really wants to protect B.C. jobs and calls her accusations dishonest and hypocritical.
He says Clark collected an extra $50,000 salary from the Liberal party and the money was coming from contributions made by the same timber companies that are pushing for a tariff on Canadian exports.
Gerard says he has no plans to come to B.C. before next Tuesday's election to campaign for the New Democrats because he believes forestry workers won't believe the Liberal attacks.
In an open letter sent to members of B.C.'s steelworkers union last week, Gerard says Clark falsely claimed that his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump was about softwood lumber.
In fact, it was about protecting union jobs in the steel industry in both the U.S. and Canada, the letter says.
"No matter what side of the border I work on, more and more I hear from right-wing politicians who don't really have any ideas of their own so they just make things up. Apparently this B.C. election is no different."
Clark and Liberal party advertisements have accused the New Democrats of taking campaign contributions from the same union that is trying to kill B.C. forestry jobs by supporting the tariff.
"The tariffs filed by Trump have nothing to do with protecting jobs in the U.S.; in fact it will cost Americans 8,000 jobs in the construction industry alone. It has more to do with U.S. lumber companies trying to drive up prices and increase their profits," Gerard's letter says.
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Can Georgia’s dedicated liberal women turn red state blue …
Posted: April 30, 2017 at 10:51 pm
ATLANTA -- Georgia, where President Trump visited Friday, has voted Republican in the last six presidential elections. But there is a new movement to turn the red state blue, led by women speaking up for the first time.
Jen Cox, a 46-year-old realtor and mother of four, suddenly found her political voice -- the liberal one she muted for years living in Cobb County, a suburb of Atlanta.
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"I was afraid that it would affect even perhaps my kids' relationships with their friends," Cox said. "We were all making a lot of assumptions that terrible things would happen if we came out as liberals."
Now, the blues have "absolutely" outed themselves, Cox said.
She had never been politically active, but when women nationwide rallied in January to protest Mr. Trump's election, Cox and her daughter joined 60,000 demonstrators in downtown Atlanta.
Seven weeks ago, on Facebook, she launched Pave It Blue, a grassroots organization for frustrated progressive women like her.
The Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017.
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"Now, just over a month later, we're at almost 2,000. And again, all local women," Cox said.
Pave It Blue's first goal is helping elect Jon Ossoff, a local Democrat running in a congressional runoff election in June.
Karin Agard, a Bermuda native who became a U.S. citizen last month, said the effort is because of Mr. Trump.
"All of it is President Trump," Agard said. "I don't think they represent me or my family. And I need someone in office to create some balance and represent me."
Jen Cox, who lives in a conservative suburb of Atlanta, has found her liberal voice.
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Cox says Mr. Trump's first 100 days have been anti-immigrant, anti-women and un-American.
"It's our responsibility to stand up to that, to speak out against it. If not us, who?" Cox said.
Pave It Blue's goal is to turn red districts to blue ones and to get women running for local office. And now that they found their voice, these liberal women say they are going to keep speaking up and speaking out.
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Liberals drop some proposals, but seem ready to move ahead with reform to Parliament – CBC.ca
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The Liberal government is moving to break a month-old deadlock over parliamentary reform, dropping some proposals that had raised opposition concerns, but nonetheless seeming readyto make changes to the way the House of Commons works, with or without oppositionsupport.
The government's intention is outlined in a letter from Government House leaderBardishChaggerto her Conservative and New Democrat counterparts that was delivered on Sunday.
In the letter, Chagger says the government will introduce amotion in the House that includes a set of reforms that were promised in the last Liberal campaign platform, including changes to question period,the consideration of omnibus legislation,and the process through which MPs approve government spending.
Other proposals, some of them controversial, will be dropped and a committee study, which was being filibustered by the opposition, will be abandoned.
The new motion is to be introduced before the House adjourns for the summer in June.
The Liberals, with a majority of seats in the House, would be able to approve the changes without the support of MPs in other parties, a possibility that has been at the heart of a messy dispute between the government and opposition.
"In the last election, Canadians were tired of how Stephen Harper's Conservatives had abused Parliament, so we really offered them real change and that's where some of our campaign commitments came from," Chagger said in an interview on Sunday.
"We have a mandate to really advance those changes and we really do want to deliver on the commitments that we've made to Canadians."
Repeating an argument the government has made on this issue, she said the Liberals "will not give the Conservatives a veto over any of our campaign commitments."
Chagger says she is interested in a "meaningful debate" and argues that the changes included in the motion will make the government more accountable to Parliament. But she suggests the government is committed to delivering on its promises of reform, regardless of opposition support.
Conservative House leader Candice Bergen said the motion will not be warmly received.
"I think what's happened is the Liberals have been hearing ... from Canadians that Canadians are not impressed with the arrogance of this government, the arrogance of this prime minister, that he thinks he can ram these changes through. And so they are scrambling and trying to do something," Bergen said in an interview on Sunday.
They are doing exactly the same thing though and it's not going to work. It's certainly not going to be a positive reception from us and the NDP, and I don't think overall Canadians will be receptive."
Bergen maintains that the rules of Parliament should only be changed with all-party consensus.
NDP House leader Murray Rankin was similarly unimpressed.
"For the past few weeks, the Liberals have tried to claim that all they've wanted was a discussion," Rankin said in a statement. "Well, they have just announced that they will be unilaterally forcing through changes to the way our Parliament works, largely just to suit themselves. Discussion was always just a pretence it just took them a while to admit it. It's clear now that the emperor has no clothes."
The parties have been at odds for more than a month, since the Liberals released a discussion paper on reform and proposed that the House committee on procedure take up a study of possible changes.
Conservatives and New Democrats expressed concerns about some of the ideas raised by the Liberals, including a new procedure to schedule debate in the House and limits onthe ability of MPs to delay committee business.
The opposition alsoalleged that the government was preparing to force the changes on MPs anddemanded that the government agree in advance to only implement reforms if all-party agreement could be found.
The Liberals refused and Conservatives and New Democrats responded by filibustering the proceedings at the committee, preventing a study from starting.
That protest spread to the House of Commons, where Conservatives used procedural maneuvres to delay business. Two weeks ago, an unrelated debate in the House became a filibuster that tied up the chamber and could continue when the House resumes sitting on Monday.
In deciding to move a motion that puts their platform commitments to a vote, the Liberals will drop their pursuit of a larger committee study.
The new government motion has not yet been tabled, but the Liberal platform proposed:
The Liberals also said they would not abuse prorogation and have since proposed a new procedure for proroguing Parliament.
On Sunday, Bergen said the Conservatives are concerned that changing question period could result in the prime minister appearing only once per week. The Liberals have said that that is not their intention.
The Conservatives are also concerned that changes to the estimates process for reviewing spending could make it harder for the opposition to scrutinize the government.
Liberal MPs are generally expected to support the government on votes in the House that relate to platform commitments.
The government isabandoning itssuggestion of a new mechanism for scheduling House business (known as "programming.")But Chagger warns that, instead, the government will be relying more often on a procedure known as time allocation, which allows the government to cap the time for debate.
"We believe in the role Parliament plays to have constructive debate of legislation and I will always strive to find out from the opposition how much time is needed for debate," Chagger says. "But if there is no agreement, we will have to use time allocation more often."
The Liberal motion will also not include a proposal to eliminate the abbreviated sittings of the House that take place on Fridays and reapportionthat time to other days, a suggestion that opposition parties have criticized.
The Liberals believe it would be better for MPs to be able to be in their ridings on Friday. Opposition MPs have complained that doing away with the Friday sitting would deprive the opposition of a day to question the government (though sparsely attended, a session of question period is conducted on Friday mornings).
The Liberals say they will discuss the proposal within their caucus and ask that the Conservatives and New Democrats do likewise.
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Morning After: Samantha Bee Shrugs Off Jake Tapper’s Smug Liberal Question – Deadline
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The morning after the first of what seems likely to be an annual comic event, Samantha Bee has no regrets. Dropping by CNNs State of the Union for a chat with Jake Tapper, a happyBee pretty much rolled her eyes atany notion of being asmug liberal.
How does it feel to be the face of the problem? asked Tapper, who had appeared in a very funny taped bit on Bees Not the White House Correspondents Dinner special last night. (Watch todaysvideo above).
Tapper referenced an article by New York Timesconservative columnist Ross Douthat that said Hillary Clinton had a Samantha Bee Problem, as in,Clinton was too closely aligned with Bees ascendant social liberalism.
So flattering! Bee laughedat one point during the good-natured interview. Asked if there was a smug liberal problem, Bee didnt seem to mind one way or the other.
I do the show for me, she said of her Trump-lashing comedy show Full Frontal, and for people like me. And I dont really care how the rest of the world sees it, quite frankly. The TBS star (TBS and CNN are sister stations) continued, We birth it and then the world receives it however they want to receive it.
As for Douthats column from last fall, Bee chuckledand said, One persons opinion. One wonderful chap.
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