Mr. Speaker, I thank the opposition House leader and all his colleagues for the applause as well.
Speaking of three successive Liberal governments, this is bound to happen again soon because ours will be re-elected the next time. There will be another Liberal government re-elected a third time. I will start with the business for the next week.
Tomorrow we will consider report stage and third reading of Bill S-22 respecting air transit preclearance, followed by Bill S-23, respecting carriage by air. I understand that these bills may proceed rather rapidly. Then we will take up consideration of the Senate amendments to Bill C-49, the land claims legislation.
Monday and Tuesday shall be allotted days. I would like to take this opportunity to remind all colleagues that Tuesday is the final day of the supply cycle which results in a day that is longer than the ones with which most of us are familiar in terms of votes and so on.
Starting Wednesday next week, I intend to commence measures to wrap up some of the parliamentary agenda. Let me give the following outline to colleagues.
Assuming that the bill has returned from the Senate, and I am told that it likely will, we will proceed with the Senate amendments to Bill C-55 as a priority. We will then consider Bill C-54. If an agreement has been reached, we could then deal with the impaired driving bill, but only provided there is an agreement. I understand that some members have different views as to what the bill should include and we can only deal with that bill if we all agree on it. The bill is unnumbered and will likely be tabled probably as early as tomorrow. Hopefully we can arrive at a consensus on that.
We would then do the miscellaneous statute law amendments act, otherwise known as MSLA. Hopefully we could do that at all stages rather rapidly. This could take us to Friday of next week.
For the week after, perhaps I should wait for the meeting of House leaders to be held on Tuesday before describing any business beyond that time.
Just to alert the Chair, of course the business I am describing beyond next Wednesday is only tentative and there would be a House leaders meeting on Tuesday. I will endeavour to keep colleagues informed.
Possibly, depending on the events in Kosovo there have been negotiations on particular procedures in that regard among House leaders. Those may change depending on the events. I intend to discuss those with House leaders as well. Perhaps on a question next Thursday I could update the House in that regard as well.
This ends my report. I am sure we are all anxiously awaiting the re-election of the third consecutive Liberal government under the able leadership of the Prime Minister.