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House unanimously adopts Liberals' promised income tax cut (www.cbc.ca)
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The House of Commons unanimously voted in favour of the Liberals' promised income tax cut on Thursday.

The Liberals promised to bring in a one percentage point reduction in the lowest marginal tax rate — taking it from 15 per cent to 14 per cent — during this spring's election campaign.

The government introduced a "ways and means" motion to make the tax changes last week and all MPs voted in favour of the motion on Thursday.

A ways and means motion allows the government to start making changes to the tax code before such changes are passed in legislation — but a bill will still need to be passed.

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[–] grte 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

'House' is a common shortening of 'House of Commons', the elected portion of Parliament. Parliament as a whole also includes the Senate. The distinction matters here because the tax cut has not passed through the Senate as of yet.

[–] humanspiral -3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Parliament as a whole also includes the Senate

I believe that is false.

Also, last bill to be rejected by Senate was a private member bill. C-311, in 2010, which coincidentally was anti-oligarchy climate reporting law. Very rare for Senate to have any consequence in Canada.

[–] OutlierBlue 7 points 11 hours ago 
Parliament as a whole also includes the Senate

I believe that is false.

https://learn.parl.ca/understanding-comprendre/en/canada-system-of-government/the-branches-of-government/#parliament-vs-government

The legislative branch includes both the House of Commons and Senate. (further up the same page)