Tories Want In-person Parliament but No Electronic Voting by MPs During Pandemic

Tories Want In-person Parliament but No Electronic Voting by MPs During Pandemic
Conservative House leader Candice Bergen stands during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on May 25, 2020. The. Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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OTTAWA—Federal Conservatives have crusaded for a return to parliamentary business as usual but they’re opposed to the one thing Liberals and New Democrats insist is necessary to do that in the midst of the COVID−19 pandemic: electronic voting.

Conservative House leader Candice Bergen says her party is suspicious of anything promoted by the Liberals that would keep most MPs out of the House of Commons and, in her view, help the government avoid accountability.