Mr. Speaker, listening to the House leader for the NDP I am not sure if misery loves company or what the phrase is that follows, but I have to concur with much of what he said. I would also add to that besides the fact that we need the Senate reform and besides the fact that the Senate is unrepresentative and undemocratic and all those other good things that we have a consensus on, I urge you, Mr. Speaker, when you rule on this to consider the trends that are happening in Parliament.
On a previous point of order on another unrelated issue you ruled against a point of order that I had brought forth on the way the government had acted. You ruled against me but you chastised the government and the finance department in that case for all too often taking this House of Commons for granted. You did not rule in my favour but you basically said “I'm warning you not to keep this up, don't persist in this action or else”.
We are now up to five or six bills introduced into the Senate. I know previously you said that a bill introduced in the Senate was not that big a thing. It was not unconstitutional. But look at what is happening if you would. This bill which the government House leader says is not a money bill is by his admission not a money bill because he just did not bother stapling a royal recommendation to the bill. Yet a few months ago he did staple the royal recommendation.
In other words, just tearing off that one piece of paper suddenly in his mind makes it unnecessary to bother with the royal recommendation. That does not make it so.
Second, Mr. Speaker, when you see now five or six bills introduced in the Senate, think of where we are going with this. I urge Mr. Speaker to consider that this House, as the House of the common people, the House where democracy should be heard and heard first, is where the bill should be introduced.
Mr. Speaker, I urge you to take that into consideration when you make your ruling later on.