OTTAWA — Government House leader Bardish Chagger is putting her opposition colleagues on notice that the Liberals will be invoking closure on debate in the Commons a lot more often. The Trudeau government is backing down on some of the more contentious changes that it had been proposing to parliamentary procedure — changes that have had Conservative and NDP critics up in arms for weeks. But Chagger says the result will require the government to use "time allocation" — shutting down debate, essentially — more often in order to get things done. Watch a press conference Chagger held on Monday embedded below:

Bardish Chagger News Conference On Parliamentary Reforms Government House Leader Bardish Chagger explains the Liberals change of strategy on Parliamentary reforms. Posted by HuffPost Canada Politics on Monday, May 1, 2017

The Liberals had proposed a system called "legislative programming" to schedule times for debates on legislation, but pulled the plug on that idea and several others in a letter Sunday to her opposition colleagues. "We had hoped there would be a willingness to examine the concept of legislative programming to manage time for debating legislation," Chagger told the Commons on Monday, the first day back after a two-week hiatus. "Unfortunately that willingness does not exist, and so it is with regret that I inform my colleagues that under these circumstances, the government will need to use time allocation more often to implement the ambitious agenda we were elected to deliver. "This will be done every time with full transparency." On Sunday, Chagger said she would proceed only with those changes promised in 2015 election campaign, including having the prime minister deliver all the responses in one question period each week.