Liberals set to launch bid to reconfigure House committees this afternoon – iPolitics
April 23, 2026
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A day after formally unveiling his pitch to reconfigure current House committee rosters to reflect his party’s newly-attained majority in the chamber, Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon is set to trigger the opening round of debate on the proposal, which, as reported by iPolitics earlier this week, “would increase the number of members on committees where Liberal MPs act as chairs to 12, with seven of those seats reserved for Liberals,” while those traditionally chaired by opposition members would have 10 seats, with five allotted to the Liberals, giving the government an “effective majority on every committee.”
Not surprisingly, both the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois have already publicly voiced their objections to the planned changes, as Canadian Press reports.
