Peter Milliken

[Committees Of The House, March 17th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present the 66th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs regarding supplementary estimates (D) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 1995.

The committee considered supplementary estimates (D) referred to the committee as agreed, and report them to the House without any amendment.

Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present the 67th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs regarding the membership of standing committees.

If the House gives its consent, I intend to move concurrence in the 67th report later this day.

[Department Of National Defence, March 17th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, the hon. member knows that a decision was made to establish a centre at Cornwallis. I am unaware of the details as alleged by the hon. member. I will take the question as notice, advise the minister and I am sure he will provide the hon. member with a fully satisfactory explanation next week.

[Questions On The Order Paper, March 16th, 1995]

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

[Government Response To Petitions, March 16th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to 18 petitions.

[West Coast Ports Operations Act, 1995, March 15th, 1995]

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

That on Thursday, March 16, 1995, when proceedings pursuant to Standing Order 38 have been concluded, the motion to adjourn the House shall be deemed to have been withdrawn and the sitting shall be suspended until such time as the Chair may reconvene the sitting for the sole purpose of a royal assent;

That immediately upon return from the royal assent, the House shall be adjourned until the next sitting day, provided that if no royal assent has been held by 9 a.m. on Friday, March 17, 1995, the House shall be reconvened for the sole purpose of being adjourned until 10 a.m. on that day.

[West Coast Ports Operations Act, 1995, March 15th, 1995]

Mr. Chairman, some discussions took place between the different parties in this House.

Mr. Chairman, I think you will find there is unanimous consent if such is required, but you will find there is general consent in the committee to have the amendments put by members of the opposition. I do not believe there are any government amendments to the bill, although there may be some, as the hon. member for Calgary Southwest is keen on saying.

The opposition may wish to move amendments and there would be a disposition to allow all of those amendments to be put, notwithstanding which clause they may be on. Then the discussion could range over all of the clauses and all of the amendments while being nominally on clause 2.

At the end of the discussion I think you would find a disposition to put the question in order on all of the clauses, the amendments appropriately placed for each clause, the title and the preamble, or whatever there may be to put questions on at the end of the bill. I would invite the Chairman to do that if that is satisfactory. I think you will find general consent.

[The Budget, March 15th, 1995]

Mr. Speaker, I think you would would find unanimous consent to deal with item No. 25 under Ways and Means Proceedings on today's Order Paper.

[The Budget, March 15th, 1995]

Mr.Speaker, I want to ask the hon. member a question. She seemed to get off on a bit of a tangent thinking that all these government

departments had overspent. If they spend their budget, she thinks they have overspent. I recognize the trait.

However, sometimes there are reallocations of priorities in the way governments spend their money. That sometimes happens. In this case, I think the government considered what it might do and reallocated some priorities and spent more in some departments that it did in others.

Perhaps the member could answer a question about overspending. I believe her party ran into a lot of trouble with overspending. It was unable to organize its finances and I understand it is running a big deficit.

Does the member not think that the same rules that ought to apply to government ought to apply to a party? Does the member not think that the party ought to get its own finances in order before it criticizes the Government of Canada?

[Motions For Papers, March 15th, 1995]

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

[Questions On The Order Paper, March 15th, 1995]

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