I invite the House to take note that today we are using the wooden mace.
It serves as a reminder of the fire that claimed seven lives and destroyed the original Parliament buildings during the night of February 3, 1916.
Among the items destroyed in that fire was the old mace. The wooden copy that you see today was subsequently made and used temporarily until the current one was given to us by the United Kingdom in 1917.
The wooden mace is being used today as a reminder of what happened 104 years ago.