Mexico Visa-Lifting Sets 'Bad Precedent'
EXCLUSIVE POLITICAL COVERAGE: NEWS, FEATURES, AND ANALYSIS INSIDE CLIMBERS: TRADE POWERS: PAINFUL TO WATCH KENNEY, HAPPY CANADA DAY! MINISTER HIRES There will be no Hill Times paper on Monday, CLEMENT SUPPORT July 4, but we’ll still have all the latest news and TWO DIRECTORS P. 17 BREXIT P. 11 opinion on hilltimes.com TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 1352 CANADA’S POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2016 $5.00 NEWS BREXIT NEWS VISAS NEWS HOUSE EXPENSES Canadian Mexico visa-lifting sets House political stablility, committees trade, not ‘bad precedent’: Rempel sought 65 per threatened by cent budget boost Brexit, MPs say to travel more BY SELINA CHIGNALL BY T IM NAUMETZ House committee chairs asked for a 65 In the days that have passed since the per cent increase to their budget to help startling referendum outcome that set the them travel to meet Canadians on their United Kingdom on a path to eventually home turf—a move one Conservative chair exit the European Union, MPs say eco- said was a waste of taxpayers’ money. nomic and political realities have calmed On June 14, the Liaison Committee, some of the early fears about the effect of which is made up of all committee chairs the dramatic outcome on Canada. and reviews all standing and standing On an economic front, International joint committee budget requests, asked the Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland (Univer- House Board of Internal Economy for an sity-Rosedale, Ont.) made a high-profi le additional $1.5 million on top of the com- appearance Monday on CBC’s political mittees’ $2.3 million budget for the 2016- affairs show, Power and Politics, assur- 2017.
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