MPs Complain Liberals’ 430-Page Omnibus Bill Will Take Many Hours to Review

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland arrive to deliver the federal budget in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 28, 2023. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press

The new federal budget tabled in the House of Commons is 430 pages long and as an omnibus bill, amends or introduces 51 Acts of Parliament, which has MPs complaining it will take a lot of time and work to unpack and debate the contents.

“I’m am not sure I am really clear how we as a finance committee can give proper scrutiny to something like this,” Manitoba Conservative MP Marty Morantz said at a House of Commons finance committee meeting on May 2.