Conservatives and New Democrats don’t agree on much, but it appears both have issues with provisions tucked into Bill C-2, the Carney government’s Strong Borders Act.
The 140-page bill would modify many existing laws, from the Criminal Code to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the Canada Post Corporation Act and the Oceans Act.
Much of it is about the border and the movement of people and goods, licit and illicit, across that border, as its full name suggests: An Act respecting certain measures relating to the security of the border between Canada and the United States and respecting other related security measures.
But some MPs are having difficulty seeing how everything in the bill is at all “related” to the border.
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