The B.C. Liberals have cancelled the fall sitting of the provincial legislature, sparking outrage from the opposition NDP. Liberal house leader Mike de Jong confirmed Wednesday that the legislature wouldn't be recalled until February, when Premier Gordon Campbell's Liberals will introduce a throne speech followed by the provincial budget. The final legislative sitting for the current government was to have begun on Oct. 6, before the provincial election already set for May 2009. Liberal house leader Mike de Jong said there is no need for an additional session to deal with any extraordinary legislation, even though the opposition New Democrats have been calling for a fall session to debate the carbon tax and double-digit pay-raises granted to some high-level bureaucrats. NDP Leader Carole James said the move amounts to the Campbell government cancelling the democratic process. "I find it extraordinary that this is a government that continues to want to govern behind closed doors and, if the government doesn't have an agenda, we do. We have a list of issues that could be talked about in the legislature," James said on Wednesday.
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