In the future, I think my practice will be to scan the room first to see how many people want to present petitions. That way, I hope we will be able to get them all in.
I would again remind members to give brief remarks about their petition so that we can allow other colleagues to speak. I initially let the hon. member go because there were not too many people who rose when I called for petitions, but then there was lots of interest as people grabbed their petitions.