Modernization Of House Of Commons Procedure  . This is the spirit in which I intend to work. Naturally, I would like to talk about time allocation motions. If there is one thing which worries me, it is the extremely frequent recourse to such motions. Whenever time allocation is moved, I know that this is a convenient way for the government

Privilege  I am now ready to rule on the question of privilege raised by the opposition House leader, the hon. member for Fraser Valley, on February 13, 2001. Subsequent to the adoption of a time allocation motion in relation to Bill C-2, an act to amend the Employment Insurance Act

Points Of Order  Mr. Speaker, I am not sure if I can do it in three minutes, but I will rush to it. Today would be a record setting number of times that time allocation would have been used. In Beauchesne's sixth edition, citation 3 outlines some elements of our Constitution Act

Anti-terrorism Act   and shocked that there are not more on that side who would do the same because many of them have serious concerns about Bill C-36. Many members wanted amendments made to the bill. We are at report stage with the government invoking time allocation which would allow the House only about 16

Privilege  , which precludes a Government from using to excess the extensive powers that it has to limit debate or to proceed in what the public and the Opposition might interpret as unorthodox ways. Earlier arguments regarding time allocation suggested that the Chair intervene on behalf

Standing Orders   in the standing orders called time allocation. I suppose that in the House just as the Canadian flag is a prop so too are the standing orders. I have to keep them hidden but I have the standing orders on time allocation and closure. Mr. Speaker, you are very familiar with them, but perhaps

Anti-terrorism Act   constituents of Prince George--Peace River, I want to make a point regarding the seriousness of what took place this morning. It is not at all unusual that the government forces through time allocation on bill after bill. In fact one of the members from the NDP, who spoke immediately

Canada Elections Act  I hear members saying, “shame”. It is a shame when we cannot even have three hours of debate before the minister jumps to his feet and moves time allocation. It is as if he is addicted to closing down debate in this place. He has become so addicted to this closing down that he

Modernization Of House Of Commons Procedure   in time allocated for private members' business, the increased use of time allocation motions, and the time restrictions in question period. Today we need to look at what the government has in mind with this parliamentary reform. In my opinion, what is desirable is to maintain

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals and firearms) and the Firearms Act   about the legislation is that at noon today the government decided we would have no more democratic debate on the bill and it brought in time allocation. It brought in time allocation I believe for the 76th time in the history of this government. It has used time allocation more than

Employment Insurance Act   to ask why it is so important today to rush the bill through the House by using time allocation. This is a leftover from the last parliament. In fact, it probably was created as a result of the Liberals losing a number of seats in the Atlantic provinces in 1997. I think the member who

Points of Order  . In consequence, the hon. member argued that the notice given by the government to time allocate the motion was invalid since Standing Order 78 can only be used to curtail debate on motions related to the stages of bills and not on a government motion. At the time this point of order

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals and firearms) and the Firearms Act   Paper as a motion in response to an amendment made to a bill. It should properly placed on the Order Paper as a government motion. If you were to agree with my point of order, there are two consequences. First, the notice given by the government to time allocate the motion

Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act  Mr. Speaker, earlier in the debate the government deputy whip suggested that further debate on the bill was pointless. She noted that about a dozen Reformers had spoken and the debate was repetitive. I would like to take a look for a minute at time allocation statistics

Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act  Madam Speaker, I want to speak directly to Bill C-55. A lot of what I have to say directly involves time allocation. To me there are too many issues. With this magazine bill the heritage minister is setting Canada up for U.S. trade retaliation. We all know