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‘Everyone on all sides is amping up the rhetoric’ as filibusters tied up House and committees to finish off the year

Conservative filibustering 'isn't actually based on principle or valid arguments,' says Government House Leader Karina Gould, while pollster Nik Nanos says opposition parties often use the tactic with issues worthy of an election fight. The Conservatives say they're just trying to hold up Trudeau's 'destructive' agenda.

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