Mr. Speaker, with the greatest respect, what has happened is perfectly proper.
On the motion the government introduced, there seem to be two points raised by the hon. member for Burnaby-Kingsway and the hon. member for Battlefords-Meadowlake. The points are separate and so I will try to deal with them separately.
The first one is that somehow the motion proposed extends the debate on this motion which has been disposed of by the House for more than an hour. That is not correct. The debate is over. No one who rose to debate the motion when the motion was put to the House.
The Chair put the motion to the House and everyone was sitting in their seats. I looked around to see if anyone was rising in debate and not a soul rose.
The hon. member for Burnaby-Kingsway was glued to his seat. He did not want to debate this matter. Then he suddenly realized he made a mistake by not getting up.
The debate is over. The question has been put. There could have been a one-hour debate. The hon. member knows this. No member rose to speak. Therefore the question was put and disposed of by the House.
The motion simply allowed the introduction of the bill which has now been introduced to the House. It has received first reading in the House. We have an additional order that says the House may continue to sit this evening past the ordinary hour of adjournment until a minister of the crown moves adjournment.
That is all we have and that is the way the matter sits at the moment. Members should be content. We will see what develops in the course of the afternoon.