Mr. Speaker, I am not sure that I can cram it into a minute. Beauchesne's fifth edition at page 34 under the section entitled “Places of Members”, clearly states:
Members are allocated desks in the Chamber by the Speaker on the advice of the party Whips—
My argument is that our whip did not consent to this arrangement. The arrangement I am talking about is putting us at this end of the Chamber.
We admit and acknowledge that we are the fifth party in the House of Commons, but following the general election of 1997 it was negotiated by all parties, us being the fifth party at the time, where we would be sitting. That applied until last week.
The byelection in Quebec changed the House in terms of our membership by one person. That one person displaced an entire party to the other end of the Chamber. I fundamentally disagree with that.