Senators passed C-12, the government's "climate accountability" legislation, which would force current and future federal governments to set binding climate targets to get Canada to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The upper house passed it on a vote of 60-19, with two abstentions. All Conservative senators voted against the bill.
Senators also gave the green light to the multi-billion-dollar federal budget that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled in April, clearing the way for some pandemic-related programs to continue until the fall as the pandemic drags on.
But the government wanted at least four of its "priority" bills passed before Parliament wrapped up the last sitting ahead of what many predict will be a fall election campaign. It fell short on the conversion therapy ban and C-10, a bill designed to make online streamers contribute more to Canada's cultural landscape — which has been attacked by Conservatives as an attack on free speech.
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