This back-door means of legislating does not allow for adequate debate about the merits of such sweeping policy changes, which deserve full deliberation by both chambers in the course of the normal legislative process.
Policy deliberation is an echo chamber, dominated by financial players, excluding legal aid experts, who criticized short-sighted deregulation.
The advocate general assigned to the case, Judge Yves Bot, has published a recommendation to introduce the ban, a position that will now go before the court's grand chamber for deliberation.
To remind them that Toronto's bylaws lack provisions for a full recall, his personal lawyers loomed over the deliberations from the council chamber's public gallery.
The scene is in sharp contrast to last year's deliberations, when both chambers skipped voting on tough bills.
They sat until the conclusion of the deliberations, and withdrew from the chamber just prior to the final vote.
With less deliberation than normal, the GOP-controlled chamber could pass the bill this week.
But they sought to achieve that goal through structural features of the chamber intended to facilitate deliberation - such as the Senate's smaller size, longer and staggered terms, and older members.
At the same time, the ubiquitous service has been criticized for disrespecting the sanctity of once-private halls of deliberation — whether a criminal jury's chambers or an N.B.A. locker room.
The Lords will remain a chamber of revision, scrutiny and deliberation, with the power to delay but not to block the government's legislation.
Senators are then given leeway to introduce any visitors, often people observing its deliberations from the gallery above the Senate chamber.
