Meanwhile, a snippet from up north...

"NDP MP Peter Stoffer wants to put an end to what he calls "headline politics" and limit the government's use of omnibus bills, massive pieces of legislation that wrap up many disparate measures into one long bill.

At a press conference Thursday, Stoffer said omnibus bills prevent members of Parliament and senators from doing their jobs and properly representing the views of their constituents and Canadian taxpayers.

"It shames me to tell my constituents that the money I receive, the pension I get in the future is in many cases under false pretenses because I am not able to do the job that I'm paid to do."

Stoffer has drafted a private member's bill, titled Stop the Bus, would seek to amend the Parliament of Canada Act so governments are barred from packaging unrelated material in omnibus bills.

"Omnibus bills receive very little scrutiny. It's unconscionable that it continues in a democracy," he told CBC News in an interview Wednesday.

"You can't bring in a bill about farming and tack on something about foreign affairs," he said.

The Conservatives have used omnibus bills to change everything from pension contribution rates to the Environmental Assessment Act to refugee health care."