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Gaming industry officials say single-game betting is already taking place in Canada, but is an unregulated, underground industry. Approving the bill would allow for better scrutiny of how money is being bet on sports and catch anomalies, they say.

The bill passed through the Commons with little debate, garnering support from all parties in the House.

The budget bill, Bill C-45, includes changes to public sector pension plans, a new electronic travel authorization system, pay raises for judges and changes to environmental protection and reviews for lakes and rivers.

The Harper government has argued that the changes are needed to protect the economy.

The opposition tried to prevent or stall adoption of the bill in recent weeks, with MPs proposing 1,600 amendments, all of which were defeated by the Conservatives in marathon voting sessions last week.

The tactics mirrored a similar filibuster on the first budget implementation bill in June.

However, this time around, the NDP also led an unconventional charge to have the vote at third reading thrown out over a technicality.

Tempers flared briefly on the floor of the Commons after the request was made, when Government House Leader Peter Van Loan got into a heated exchange with NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair as the former was talking with his NDP counterpart Nathan Cullen. Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Cullen got between Van Loan and Mulcair.

There were no such stall tactics in the Senate, which split the bill up for study before the Commons had even passed it. A Liberal amendment in the Senate that would have seen hundreds of pages removed from the budget was voted down Thursday night.