Mr. Chairman, this issue of the Speaker and of the number of members from the government and from the opposition has been dealt with in lengthy negotiations.
Without going into the details, because these are negotiations between the House leaders, this was in fact an issue in the negotiations, where it was finally agreed that there would be five members from the government, two members from the official opposition, in this case the Leader of the Opposition, who can of course be its representative, plus another member, and a representative from each other political party. That was one of the issues in the negotiations and it was in fact the last issue that was resolved, so that today we have this agreement.
(Clause 2 agreed to)
(Title agreed to)
(Bill reported, concurred in, read the third time and passed)