I declare the motion carried. Accordingly, the bill stands referred to the standing committee on justice and legal affairs.
My colleagues, your Speaker finds himself in somewhat of a quandary. I have been approached by hon. members of Parliament who wish to be recorded as abstaining from the votes.
I have two choices. I can have them stand, put it on the record and declare them out of order or I can simply ask those who want to abstain from the vote to rise and I can declare them all out of order at the same time.
I surely do not want to make light of this. Because we do not have a mechanism for abstention I would ask the committee on voting procedures to take this into account at some future time in its deliberations.