PC government uses supermajority to change N.S. legislature rules

NDP Leader Claudia Chender said it all amounts to "a fundamental change" in the way the legislature works.

"We are making it much more difficult to debate bills in this House and to bring contrary views to the government into this house and ultimately to hold the government to account, which as opposition is what we're elected to do," she said in an interview following the final vote on the resolution.

Chender said there can be value in prolonged debate, pointing to the fact that while the resolution has been the focus of MLAs, the public has had time to learn about Bill 1, omnibus legislation Premier Tim Houston introduced last week.

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