Mr. Speaker, I rise on the same point of order or similar point of order. Obviously there is nothing uncommon about having a unanimous standing vote. It has happened a number of times.
My point is that, as happy as I and my colleagues are to support the motion of congratulations to the Queen and Prince Phillip on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary, the House to some degree was asked to believe there had been some prior agreement that this would happen at this time.
That simply was not so. There had been some mention that something like this might happen, but there certainly had been no agreement.
Had agreement been sought it would have been given by the NDP, but to suggest that somehow there had been some kind of agreement and that therefore anybody is in breach of some agreement is simply not the case. I think it reflects an unfortunate willingness to play politics with something that we should not play politics with.