Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point or order, which I hope will be very short and I am sure that you hope that too.
I am referring to the fact that during the soft lob question during question period the Minister of the Environment tabled a document as part of question period.
Mr. Speaker, you know that we have enough trouble trying to keep the questions and the answers related to the questions the way it is now, and surely we do not want question period to degenerate into a time when ministers take up our time tabling documents.
I refer you to page 371 of Marleau and Montpetit which states:
A Minister or Parliamentary Secretary acting on behalf of the Minister may table documents in the House during Routine Proceedings--
On the last line of that page it states:
--if a Minister wishes to table a document which is not required to be tabled, it can only be tabled in the House during Routine Proceedings.
I submit that the document which was tabled by the Minister of the Environment is not yet properly tabled. I think it should be tabled during routine proceedings which is to follow soon.