Questions On The Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, I would ask that all questions be allowed to stand.

House Of Commons Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, the member may think I am an elitist. I find the comment rather odd as I came from the most humble beginnings to take my seat in Parliament. As the member gets to know me he will learn about that. The last thing I have ever been called is elitist as I will describe to him privately later.

House Of Commons Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for the question. There is one principle if we are to proceed down the road to making the place work better and if we are to use the committee structure and that is the committee must, before it starts work, have a consensus as to what it wants to do.

House Of Commons Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, as I said in my speech, in the last two to three years, my colleague the parliamentary secretary of the Government House Leader and I have examined this whole issue and we looked at what was being done elsewhere. In the case of the United States, we must of course consider the fact that their system is presidential, while ours is a British parliamentary system; it is therefore more appropriate to look at Great Britain, although we must take into account the Canadian reality-namely that Canada is a federation with some distinctive features.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I have petitions with over 5,000 signatures from people from every part of Canada to add to the over two and a half million signatures which have already been presented to Parliament. They are from citizens who feel that there are serious deficiencies in the criminal justice system.

Petitions  Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition that I have received from several hundred of my constituents in Oxford county. This petition has been duly certified by the clerk of petitions. Most of the petitioners are citizens of the city of Woodstock. They are requesting that the government ban sales of the serial killer board game and serial killer cards and prevent any other such games, cards or material being made available in Canada.

Questions On Order Paper  Mr. Speaker, I ask that all questions be allowed to stand.

Canadian Multiculturalism Act  Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 32(2) I have the honour to table, in both official languages, copies of the annual report on the operation of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act for 1992-93. I will be making a statement shortly, outlining my vision on this government's new directions for multiculturalism.

Taxation  Mr. Speaker, there will always be people who find loopholes in the tax system, and it is up to the Minister of Finance to deal with that. The Minister of Finance is now trying to remedy the situation. The minister said that in his budget, he intends to bring fairness back to our tax system.

Bosnia-Herzegovina  Mr. Speaker, I think the Prime Minister has addressed that question. There are meetings going on in Brussels today and will be in the next couple of days. As far as the Canadian government is concerned we are most interested and concerned that the Canadian troops in Bosnia are not put at undue risk by any escalation action that may occur as a result of these discussions that are going on.

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I believe that we should take the U.S. government's reports at face value. I am not sure they are extremely damaging to Quebec. Quebec makes its own decisions, and that is fine with me.

Labour Dispute  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Agriculture. The shutdown of the port of Vancouver, Canada's largest seaport, has cut off millions of dollars of commodity exports including hundreds of millions of dollars of grain, potash and forestry products. Now that the mediated talks have broken off, could the minister give the House an undertaking as to what specific measures the government is prepared to take to guarantee that Canadian grain exports will reach their markets and that the integrity of our international trade position is not hindered?

Cigarette Smuggling  Mr. Speaker, it is true that in hypothetical situations, we can have hypothetical answers to hypothetical problems. However, we still do not know what we will do. We do not know all the steps the government will take, that will be announced by the Prime Minister tomorrow. As to what can happen at the border between Ontario and Quebec, I cannot give a good answer because it is a hypothetical situation.

Cigarette Smuggling  Mr. Speaker, That is exactly what we intend to do, and I am very pleased to have the support of my colleague opposite on this.

Bosnia  Mr. Speaker, at this very moment people are discussing the use of airstrikes to prevent the so-called strangulation of Sarajevo, and there is no direct connection with the position of Canadian soldiers who are now located in another part of Bosnia. We have to weigh the pros and cons, and our position is still the same.