Mr. Speaker, I have just a small point of order arising out of the tributes.
Unless my memory serves me incorrectly, the custom of this House has been on the occasion of a tribute for the first tribute to any particular former member of this House, or a member of this House that has died, is to come usually from the representative of the party for which the member sat, or in some instances the sitting member for the riding for which the former member sat.
I noticed today that in the case of the former member for Nickel Belt it was a sitting member that was recognized. I fully expected that the next member recognized would be a member from the New Democratic Party and that was not the case.
I would like to register my objection to this departure from what I consider to be the tradition in this House, a tradition of which the Chair should be well aware, having sat in this House as long as I have.