Legislation to extend and increase N.S. rent cap passes at House late Tuesday
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NDP Leader Claudia Chender said no decision has actually been made with the amended legislation.
“This bill actually doesn't say anything,” Chender said. “It says that they're going to do a thing and they'll tell us what it is later. I think that's important to acknowledge. The way that this bill is promoted is as putting forward a five per cent rent cap, but that is not in fact what the legislation says.”
Speaking at 10:30 p.m., Tuesday, Chender said she wanted to address the elephant in the legislature chamber.
“Every bill this session has been passed in the dark, literally. We spend some time voting on the budget. It could have been 8:45 p.m., in the dark. The people affected by these bills are putting their kids to bed, are watching TV, are doing the things that they want to do at the end of the night, which is 100 per cent not watching what is happening in this chamber and that's OK.
“We pass our bills in the dark, and a reminder that the rules, which have been brought up a few times – if you were to look at the text of the rules, they will say that this House sits during daylight. Yet we do not.””