Chair, given the announcement earlier this week, the cuts the government made across the board in all kinds of departments but in particular the significant cut to Human Resources and Social Development, and given the fact that it is the largest cut to a ministry of all of the ministries, and also the fact that many of the agencies and departments that were cut have a very direct effect on the hearings we're having on employability—such as the cuts to literacy and youth employment, and it's in the millions of dollars, as you know—I would first like to move a motion that given the emergency nature of this, we suspend all of the rules we put in place, the 48-hour notice for motions, to consider a motion that I forwarded to the clerk yesterday to be debated today, either now or at the end of today's proceedings.
On September 28th, 2006. See this statement in context.