Mike Lake at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On November 19th, 2007. See this statement in context.

November 19th, 2007 / 4 p.m.

Conservative

Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB

I want to speak to that before we vote. I want to make the point that I made before. Before we vote on this, I want to be very clear that under this amended motion the Conservative Party gets almost 7% fewer questioning minutes than we had percentage of the vote--lower even than our percentage of MPs in the House. The Liberal Party gets more question minutes than they would under the original proposal. The NDP and Bloc both get more minutes than their allocations as a proportion of the vote or a proportion of the seats in the House.

So under any measure of fairness, this amended motion is completely fair. I just want to make that point before we vote on this.

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