grits allow Mcteague's bill to be gutted

The grits have allowed MP Dan McTeague's RESP bill to be gutted like a fish. Once again HM Loyal Party of Abstention strikes again. They don't even support their own bills. What a joke these grits are.

Tories win first vote to block RESP bill
BILL CURRY
Globe and Mail Update
March 13, 2008 at 5:40 PM EDT
OTTAWA — A government budget motion that would spike an opposition education savings plan passed its first hurdle yesterday, as MPs voted 124-87 in favour.

The Bloc Quebecois and New Democrats opposed the government Ways and Means motion, but it passed because only a handful of Liberals rose to vote against the motion.

The budget motion approved today overrides a private member's bill by Liberal MP Dan McTeague passed last week. That bill would allow parents to deduct up to $5,000 a child in donations to a Registered Education Savings Plan.

House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken sided with the government earlier in the day in a procedural dispute with the Opposition, allowing the vote to go ahead.


Canada's Liberal Member of Parliament Dan McTeague stands to vote against a ways and means motion March 13, 2008. (REUTERS/Chris Wattie)

The Liberals had argued the government could not revisit an issue that has already been dealt with by the House of Commons. They also argued the government was abusing its executive powers to override the powers of the legislative branch.