Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I believe when I left off, I was about to refer to an article on government motion number six. It would have been a 2016 article published on “On Procedure and Politics”, which is available through thoughtundermined.com.
Instead, I want to refer to and begin with this article: “Evolution of the Ontario Standing Orders since 1985”, by Adam McDonald. Mr. McDonald was an Ontario legislative intern for 2004-05.
It says:
This is a revised version of a paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association on June 4, 2005.
It goes on to say:
This author is grateful to present and former MPPs as well as to legislative staff interviewed in the preparation of this paper.
It bears some discussion here, because it talks directly about how the standing orders of the provincial Parliament in Ontario have been amended since 1985. I think it's relevant to the discussion we're having now, because we can see through this motion and the very reasonable amendment we've proposed to—