Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order pertaining to the votes we will take in a few minutes on Bill C-4.
There have been certain discussions among all the parties in this House about the possibility of removing from the draft bill those detailed provisions which deal with additions to or subtractions from the Canadian Wheat Board's current mandate on the condition that members consent to the tabling now of a new provision in the law that would ensure that no minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board could attempt to change the wheat board's existing mandate either to enlarge it or to reduce it without first having conducted a democratic vote among the relevant producers and also having consulted with the wheat board's new board of directors.
Mr. Speaker, I would ask that you seek the unanimous consent of the House to allow such a proposal, which I have discussed with each opposition critic, to be deemed to have been duly moved and seconded and ordered to be voted on along with all the other amendments we are about to consider in a few moments.