The Chair has considered the request of the hon. member for Brandon—Souris very carefully and is satisfied that the request appears to meet the exigencies of the standing order.
Accordingly I am disposed to permit a debate under Standing Order 52 on the question of agricultural policy as raised by the hon. member.
However, in considering it, the Chair has certain options available to it. One is to defer the debate for a further time. I am inclined to do that until tomorrow evening. That gives the Chair additional latitude in that instead of starting the debate at 8 o'clock, it could start at the conclusion of the votes that are scheduled for tomorrow evening at the time of adjournment.
Accordingly I propose that the debate will start at that time and will continue to no later than the hour provided in the standing orders, namely midnight. There will be a debate on this subject for all hon. members.