There is not enough time in Parliament to complete the study of Bill 31 and the reform of the Minister of Housing, France-Élaine Duranceau. The Land Planning Commission has until 9 p.m. this evening to complete its analysis, but elected officials must first finish that of Bill 39 on municipal taxation.
Quebec elected officials must finish studying Bill 31 this Tuesday so that Parliament has time to adopt it before the end of the session on Friday. Otherwise, work will have to resume when work resumes on January 30.
When these lines were written on Tuesday at the end of the day, elected officials were looking at Bill 39 on municipal taxation from Minister Andrée Laforest, which aims to provide cities with new levers to build housing, in particular.
However, the Minister of Municipal Affairs planned to add new last-minute amendments on Tuesday, among other things, to help cities finance public transit services.
In the event that the deputies have the time to complete this exercise and resume the study of Bill 31 of Minister Duranceau during the evening, several aspects remain to be studied including the amendments concerning student housing and the Société d habitation du Québec (SHQ).
At the end of the day, solidarity deputy Andrés Fontecilla considered it unrealistic that they would have time to get through it during the evening. “There is a lot of material left,” he said, adding that he intended not to deprive himself of “asking the necessary questions”.
Tuesday morning, the liberal opposition reported that the government itself had overloaded the program by multiplying last-minute amendments to bills. “On municipal taxation, what was tabled is more than 60 pages of amendments,” denounced liberal leader Monsef Derraji.
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