OTTAWA—It’s hard to imagine the perpetually upbeat Michael Chong in a bad mood, but the earnest Conservative MP has abandoned hiding his frustration.
Chong has spent about five years crusading for a rebalancing of powers between MPs and party leaders in the Commons. In December 2013, he finally introduced his Reform Act to do something about it—and earned the support of most of the Commons.
But now the bill looks like it might wither away in the Senate, critiqued by both Conservative and Liberal senators who say they might want to tinker with the legislation.
Sources say Chong has made impassioned speeches to his caucus colleagues, both at their weekly meeting Wednesday and to MPs and senators from the greater Toronto area in an earlier get-together.
