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Climate change tops government’s priorities but few details laid out in throne speech

The priorities of continuing to address climate, working towards further reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations and working together regardless of party for the unity of the country that Gov. Gen. Julie Payette read out on behalf of the new Liberal minority government at the officially opening of the Parliament has heartened some social justice and religious groups.

But it is what was not in the speech that worries others.

For those worried that with a minority government that will need the support of other parties in the House to survive going forward, the fact that some of those other parties – the Bloc Quebecois, NDP and Greens – are on the socially-progressive side of the political divide, is cause for concern on issues such as the ongoing expansion of who is legally eligible to request a medically-assisted death because of recent court decisions.

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