Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Parliament's Fall Session

Conservative, Liberal, and New Democrat M-P's say they intend to focus on job creation during Parliament's fall session.

But when the Conservative government begins rolling out its legislative agenda today, it'll start with the re-introduction of a series of crime bills.

Among other things, the bills would increase the number of mandatory minimum sentences and eliminate house arrest for violent offences.

M-P's opened the fall session yesterday with tributes to the late Jack Layton