Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer says his party would help the government pass its budget implementation bill if it removes sections that would give new powers to allow ministers to “ignore certain laws and regulations.”

Scheer told reporters Tuesday the Conservatives have put forward “a series of compromises” that, if accepted by the Liberals, would allow the budget bill to proceed.

Those changes, he said, would “prevent ministers from being able to completely circumvent the law without any kind of parliamentary oversight or scrutiny.”

“We know what happens when Liberals think no one’s looking. They have a long track record of funnelling cash to their friendly insiders and their political supporters,” Scheer said before question period.

The massive bill brings in changes to laws to implement measures spelled out in last fall’s budget, the first under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s leadership.

The Conservatives didn’t immediately reply to comment from iPolitics clarifying what sections of the bill Scheer was hoping to change.

A section of the bill amends the Red Tape Reduction Act to allow ministers to grant temporary exemptions from some laws in order to create or modify regulations to “encourage innovation, competitiveness or economic growth.”

The bill would give the minister the power to make an exemption if it was deemed to be in the public interest, the benefits outweighed the risks, an implementation plan had been developed and some oversight was in place.

The minister proposing the exemption would have to make their order public and disclose their reasoning.

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