Peter Milliken

[Committees Of The House, June 10th, 1994]

Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present the 28th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs regarding priority usage in committee rooms.

[Government Response To Petitions, June 10th, 1994]

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to one petition.

[Government Response To Petitions, June 9th, 1994]

Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to table, in both official languages and pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), the government's response to two petitions.

[Supply, June 8th, 1994]

Mr. Speaker, to avoid confusion I think you would find there is unanimous consent to apply the second vote that was taken, that is, the vote on the previous amendment to a motion, not on a main motion, to this particular vote on this particular amendment.

[Supply, June 8th, 1994]

Mr. Speaker, I feel I must refer to Standing Order 18, because I am afraid the hon. member went too far. The text reads as follows, and I quote:

1. No Member shall speak disrespectfully of the Sovereign, nor of any of the Royal Family, nor of the Governor General or the person administering the Government of Canada; nor use offensive words against either House, or against any Member thereof.

That is the rule under the Standing Orders. This is very important, and I hope the hon. member will speak respectfully of the Senate.

[Supply, June 8th, 1994]

Mr. Speaker, I was very interested in the comments made by the hon. member for Mégantic-Compton-Stanstead, but I was surprised by his attack on the Senate.

I remember in the last Parliament that the House was not full but had a great number of Conservative MPs from the province of Quebec sitting on the other side who were staunch supporters of the Senate. My recollection is that members of his party who used to be Conservatives-apparently they either saw some light or went blind, I am not sure which; either way they fell off the path and landed on another-or supporters of Mr. Mulroney and his government supported the Senate. They supported it so much they stuffed it full of good Tories.

We know this happened during the last Parliament. We know it was supported by Conservative members of Parliament, many of whom were from the province of Quebec and never said a word in the House about their electors wanting to get rid of the Senate. Now we hear this is the popular rage in his province. I do not recall hearing raised during the last election campaign anywhere in Canada that the Senate was the subject of extensive discussion, either in Quebec or elsewhere.

I am very surprised to hear the hon. member telling us today that everyone in his province is in favour of abolition of the Senate when this patently was not the case until at least October 25, 1993. Has something happened that has changed the minds of Quebecers? I am interested to know what it is that in his view has resulted in this-

-about-face, as we say, which changed the opinion of all his constituents.

[Motions For Papers, June 8th, 1994]

Mr. Speaker, I would ask that all Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers be allowed to stand.

[Questions On The Order Paper, June 8th, 1994]

Mr. Speaker, I would ask that all questions be allowed to stand.

[Committees Of The House, June 8th, 1994]

moved:

That a member of the Standing Committee on Human Rights and the Status of Disabled Persons be authorized to travel to Fredericton, New Brunswick, to attend a meeting of the Premier's Council on the Status of Disabled Persons, to be held from June 23 to June 25, 1994.

[House Of Commons, June 8th, 1994]

Mr. Speaker, I think you will find unanimous consent for the following motion:

That between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Wednesday, June 8, 1994 the Speaker shall entertain no quorum calls nor shall he receive any dilatory motion.