Just a point of information, Mr. Speaker.
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Points Of Order December 16th, 1999
Just a point of information, Mr. Speaker.
Points Of Order December 16th, 1999
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.
Points Of Order December 15th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, I did many things today but I did not table any document. I will do so now.
My thanks to my colleague who offered to do it for me because I am having a small problem but I am still able to talk to you.
Following the announcement by the Prime Minister of the tabling of a bill negating the fundamental rights of Quebec, I seek the unanimous consent of the House to table a copy of an editorial that the hon. members should read written by Alain Dubuc, a federalist who is against this bill.
Points Of Order December 15th, 1999
If I understood right, Reform said no.
Points Of Order December 15th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, I just want to say that, as agreed, the Bloc Quebecois supports the tabling of the document the hon. member wants to table. I do not understand why it is not happening now.
Bill C-20 December 14th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, the minister is using the supreme court opinion as he sees fit.
How can he base his position on this opinion when it refers 57 times to negotiation in order to claim that any recourse to the word “negotiation” in the question would make that question obscure and unacceptable?
Bill C-20 December 14th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs has just told my colleague from Beauharnois—Salaberry that a number of sovereignists did not support his rhetoric.
May I humbly remind him that he leaves us far behind in that, for there are tens of thousands of federalists who do not agree with what he is saying. To name but one of these, Jean Charest, leader of the Quebec federalists.
How can the minister claim that the supreme court's requirement of clarity can be translated into forbidding the Quebec national assembly from presenting to its citizens the political project of its choice?
Points Of Order December 14th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, I do not know what standing order you are basing your ruling on that the point of order I am making deals with something you do not want to hear about.
You are required to show objectivity. I am the House leader of this political party and I fully intend to make all the points of order we need to ensure our rights are respected. Otherwise, our jurisdictions will come into conflict.
Points Of Order December 14th, 1999
Mr. Speaker, before the government uses the House of Commons to limit the powers of the National Assembly of Quebec, I would like to ask for the consent of the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs to table an excerpt from the referendum legislation of Maryland, which he would certainly find inspiring—
Points Of Order December 14th, 1999
—of members from Quebec on the other side who are put out, are perfectly entitled to seek your attention, to raise a point of order, to suggest that material relevant to the debate we are now having be read or considered. That is our perfect right and I call on you to observe the Standing Orders, to protect the right to speak of members in this House, and to ask the members of the government party to be quiet, whether they like it or not.