6 • THURSDAY October 21, 2021
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ALBAS: When Heaven Sargent, Grade 10 will Parliament return? Normally, the House of Commons is back in session during the third week in September, DAN ALBAS meaning we VIEW FROM THE would be HILL well into the fall session by now. Obviously with Prime Minister Trudeau having called an election on September 20th, the normal Parliamentary cycle was delayed. Recently I have been increasingly asked the question when will the new Parliament be up and running in Ottawa? For some context, the 2015 general election that was held on Monday, Oct. 19th and just over two weeks later on November 4th, Prime Minister Trudeau announced his cabinet and the new Parliament resumed roughly one month after that on December 3rd with a Throne Speech being heard on December 4th. We are now four weeks past the September 20th election and I would expect the PM to announce his cabinet within the next week, with Parliament likely returning with a Throne Speech sometime potentially as late as December. It also should be noted that the first See ‘PARLIAMENT’ Page 7 action of
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