National Magazine: Although plenty is going on as Parliament resumes, the federal government has a legislative agenda with fewer returning items than it often does coming into the fall sitting.
That’s because, for the first time in years, a large volume of bills passed in ahead of the summer recess, thanks to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals now holding a working majority in the House of Commons. This allowed them to take control of committees and pass time-allocation motions more frequently, putting an end to years of procedural warfare that had slowed the legislative process to a crawl outside budget-cycle bills…