Mr. Speaker, perhaps I will preface it a bit to contain the catcalls.
The government is eventually going to shut the House down early, as many suspect, due to the context and the scandals going on right now. We are going to move an amendment that would allow question period to be one and a half hour, 90 minutes, to allow the government to be held to account.
It is a simple amendment. I will read it, and then we can debate it. I know the Prime Minister has seen an urgency to suddenly go to South America, but we believe that a 90-minute question period would be a good idea.
I move:
That the motion be amended by deleting all of the words after “Fridays;” and replacing them with the following:
(b) when oral questions are to be taken up pursuant to Standing Order 30(5), they shall last for a period of 90 minutes.