Mr. Speaker, it is an interesting procedural argument, but I would just like to say that whatever its outcome, I would think all members of parliament, no matter how they voted on the particular private members' bill in question, should be concerned about any developments which tend to sanction or portray an inability on the part of the House to have the Senate deal expeditiously with things that have been passed here in the House of Commons. This is, after all, the elected Chamber in this parliament and the Senate should not take upon itself the role of deliberately withholding the appropriate procedural passage of anything that has already gone through the House of Commons.
In the House of Commons on June 14th, 2000. See this statement in context.