constitutional affairs committee

OTTAWA — The Conservatives have passed up a chance to seize control of a key Senate committee that they regularly attack for stalling or watering down government bills.

 

Now that the Tories hold more seats in the upper chamber than the Liberals, they can reconfigure committees to reflect their new power.

 

But instead of taking the chair of the legal and constitutional affairs committee, which has been examining hot-button crime bills, they left that job to Liberal Senator Joan Fraser.