An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867 and the Parliament of Canada Act (Speakership of the Senate)

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Status

Second reading (Senate), as of March 10, 2015
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Constitution Act, 1867 to provide for the election of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Senate. It further amends the Constitution Act, 1867 to provide for a voting procedure in the Senate similar to the one used in the House of Commons, where the elected Speaker of that House may not vote except when the votes on a question are equally divided.
The enactment also makes related amendments to the Parliament of Canada Act.

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All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

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