THE LATEST | CANADAAlthia Raj/Toronto Star: She (Conservative MP Sandra Cobena) told MPs Monday that “I would have preferred that this provision be removed from the Budget Implementation Act entirely,” but then she and most of her Tory colleagues didn’t vote to eliminate it. Had she done so, the Bloc Québécois — which is also opposed — will have offered the majority vote needed.
Instead, Canada’s governing parties sided together to entrench new sweeping powers for the executive — somewhat less sweeping than what the Liberals originally proposed, but still an enormously long leash for this and any future government to enjoy, and potentially abuse…