I believe it was mentioned in a previous debate that one of the cleanups in the Standing Orders was dealing with the supper hour, the dinner hour, that was still written into the Standing Orders. I believe that in times gone by, that was the usual time many members would have found themselves at the bar in Parliament here, to enjoy some of the spirits that were allowed or that were produced here in Canada.
Certainly we're very strong proponents of craft distilleries and craft brewers, as well. I'll put that on the record as well, Mr. Chair.
I think it's important. We came into Confederation, in these debates, with the acknowledgement by the then-attorney general of the importance of allowing debate, the importance of allowing discussion. I think that if we were to go along with some of the proposals that have been suggested in the discussion paper, we'd be doing a disservice to many individuals in the House by preventing them from having fullness of debate, fullness of discussion. It's not that we can't consider how to better structure discussion, but I think it would be a mistake for us to go forward and undertake a way of preventing MPs from having a full discussion on certain issues such as that.
Those are the debates on Confederation. I may come back to them again at a future reference. I have a couple of more Post-it notes in there, but I do want to....