The office of the federal fisheries minister was targeted by protestors today. About two-dozen people upset about various impacts of Bill C-38 gathered outside Keith Ashfield's Fredericton office. Several groups, including CCNB Action, claim the budget bill will reverse progress on environmental protection laws. The organization's David Coon says Prime Minister Harper was elected to protect and build up the environment...

Dave Shaw with the Public Service Alliance of Canada says the government seems bent on the destruction of jobs, as well as endangering the public by closing coast guard centres...

The Conservative government rejects the argument that the bill makes too many changes that have not been properly debated, and is using its majority to defeat hundreds of opposition amendments. Voting is not scheduled to end until this evening or early Friday morning.