Just moments ago, Liberal MP Bob Rae announced that he will be stepping down as MP for Toronto Centre so he can spend more time working with the Matawa Tribal Council in its negotiations with the Ontario government. 

All but lost amid last night's flurry of last-minute legislative fast tracking was the government's tacit admission that it has officially abandoned its attempt to strip the citizenship of dual nationals convicted of acts of terrorism -- at least, for now.

So this, it seems, is how the seemingly interminable spring sitting ends -- not with a bang, but a flurry of last-minute motions to whip through the last few items of business on the government -- and, it's worth noting, the opposition -- agenda.

Yes, just when it seemed like they were never going to clear out, MPs somehow managed to muster up the necessary unanimity to free themselves from the bounds of day-to-day Commons business and head home for the summer.

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Despite the seemingly permanent state of partisan rancour that has permeated the precinct for the last few weeks, an eleventh hour outpouring of all-party agreement allowed MPs to speed through the last few items of legislative business on the government's agenda in record time before heading home for the summer a full three days before the parliamentary calendar officially ran out.

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As reported by my intrepid CBC News colleague Laura Payton just moments ago, House Speaker Andrew Scheer has handed down his ruling on the point of privilege raised by Liberal MP Scott Andrews earlier this month, in which he argued that the Chamber, and not the speaker, should decide whether Conservative MPs Shelly Glover and James Bezan should be suspended from the Commons over their respective alleged failure to comply with the Canada Elections Act. 

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Undaunted, it seems, by the continuing -- and apparently at least partially PMO-driven -- controversy over his past speaking engagements, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will embark on a second attempt to impose more stringent transparency requirements on the Board of Internal Economy -- this time, via private members' bill, which will take considerably longer to work its way through the House than those motions for unanimous consent that he unsuccessfully attempted to table last week, but which have the benefit of not requiring all-party support to succeed.

UPDATE: I should note that, although Trudeau's pro-transparency bill is indeed on the Notice Paper for today, that doesn't necessarily mean he'll introduce it this morning. although members generally do so as soon as they make their intention of doing so clear. 

Meanwhile, with the parliamentary clock now counting down the final hours until the summer adjournment, the government is gearing up for a final legislative blitz, beginning with the penultimate stage of its bid to crack down on corruption of foreign public officials, which has already been passed by the Senate and now faces two more votes in the House before being added to the growing queue of bills awaiting Royal Assent.

Also on the agenda today: Final Commons approval of the government's proposal to tighten the rules on those deemed not criminally responsible, which will likely complete third reading debate today, and be voted tomorrow.

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