After being stuck in the Senate for over a year, Bill C-48 will finally move on.
Senators voted last night to pass the Bill, deemed the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, which seeks to ban oil tanker traffic on BC’s Northcoast.
They didn’t do so without proposing some significant changes to the Bill, which have Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen expressing some concern.
Cullen, who has supported the Bill since its inception, says Parliament will now need to debate what the proposed changes mean and determine the best version of the Bill.
MPs passed the Bill through the House last year, and concerns had begun to grow over whether it would make it through this session of Parliament.
A Senate Transportation Committee had recommended that Senators throw out the Democratically approved Bill, which would have been a rare move.
