On the other hand, maybe this Parliament thing could be useful

Kady O’Malley reviews how the government failed to amend its own bill.

What makes the government’s eleventh hour effort to amend its own bill even more puzzling, however, is what the speaker didn’t mention, perhaps out of politeness, but more likely because he simply didn’t know: namely, the fact that similar amendments had, in fact, been brought forward at committee, by Liberal MP -- and former justice minister -- Irwin Cotler, whereupon the Conservative majority on the other side of the table voted down each and every one.