“It was an interesting race,” Nicola Di Iorio, a Liberal MP from Montreal, told reporters the next day. Those Liberals did that hours after Trudeau called the bill unconstitutional and told reporters he and his cabinet would vote against it. “Government was putting its full weight behind it being severely gutted,” said Rob Oliphant, the Liberal MP who was S-201’s sponsor in the House of Commons. Elizabeth May, the Green Party MP, agrees that Trudeau’s approach to caucus relations is much better than Stephen Harper’s. Housefather’s committee now gets to work on another bill, S-217, that the Trudeau cabinet also opposes.

Source: National Post March 12, 2017 18:26 UTC