Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, I do feel rather sorry for you this afternoon, that you are being required to read these motions in their entirety. However, I would like to say to you, perhaps as an apology, that we were approached by the government side to give you unanimous consent to waive having to read all these motions. However, we asked if the government would ensure and guarantee that time allocation would not be introduced, which it did not. Then we unfortunately had to deny the unanimous consent. Therefore, Mr. Speaker-
In the House of Commons on February 5th, 1997. See this statement in context.