Excise Tax Act  Speaker, it is a pleasure to speak once again to Bill C-70. First I must decry the fact that the government has moved time allocation, a form of closure, on this piece of legislation. I need to point out that since the fall session began, the government has pushed through precisely nine bills and here we are ramming through important pieces of legislation in the last week.

Excise Tax Act  Therefore, I give notice that, at the next sitting of the House, pursuant to Standing Order 78(3), a minister of the crown will be moving a time allocation motion for the purpose of allotting a specified number of days or hours for the consideration and disposal of proceedings at that stage.

Excise Tax Act  I believe that all of us in this place get tired of preparing presentations only to have some procedural thing prevent us from presenting our views to the House. Indeed from time to time the government elects to enact closure or time allocation and prevents members from all parties from speaking to important legislation. That too is tragic. It is very unfortunate that this morning we had a process which did not fall into place the way it was intended to allow people to speak to that legislation.

Manganese-Based Fuel Additives Act  To put a damper on the controversy surrounding their bill and the strong opposition it is encountering, the Liberals have brought in time allocation at third reading. In other words, they are gagging us. The Liberal government is telling members: "Enough. Keep your mouths shut. We will decide and you have nothing to say about it".

Judges Act  I would like to inform the hon. member for Vegreville that I cannot accept this motion since a time allocation motion dealing with this particular bill has already been accepted in this House.

Judges Act  Pursuant to Standing Order 78(3), I give notice of my intention to propose a motion of time allocation at the next sitting of the House, for the purpose of allotting a specified number of days and hours for the consideration and disposal of proceedings at that stage.

Manganese-Based Fuel Additives Act  Speaker, it is my understanding of Standing Order 78 that the government must give one full day's notice of a time allocation motion. I believe that notice was just given a few minute's ago and here we have moved to the motion itself which is to limit debate to only one more day. I would ask the Speaker to look at that.

Canada Elections Act  It would seem to me that if there is support, and if this has been well thought out, indeed if it has reached the point where the government in its infinite wisdom has decided to fast track this and bring forward time allocation to hurry this through the House with very limited debate, it is a piece of legislation that is all encompassing and that certainly is going to do the job with no need for amendment.

Canada Elections Act  Kingsley's report since April and instead of bringing it to Parliament or bringing it to committee we find it is invoking time allocation so that we are not allowed to debate it. Not only that, but it is being pushed through with such haste that today the government is back again asking for unanimous consent to amend what we passed yesterday because there is not enough time to get it into the regular process for the amendments to even be debated in the House.

Canada Elections Act  Also, if this is such a terrific piece of legislation, why is the government afraid to debate it? Why did it have to bring in time allocation and force this legislation through in a very short period of time? If it is a good piece of legislation and if it was so clearly though out as previous speakers have said, why are so many amendments being brought forward?

Canada Elections Act  Instead, we had barely started discussing the reform when the government decided to invoke time allocation. Such an attitude is indicative of the government's utter lack of respect, something that is the Liberal Party's trademark. Historically, if there is any group that has shown no respect for the House throughout Canada, it is this party.

Canadian Volunteer Service Medal For United Nations Peacekeeping Act  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to talk to the bill. I was a little taken aback by the time allocation. How much time would I have?

Oceans Act  Is it the Prime Minister, from his offices in the Langevin Block, or the Yonge Street moguls? In any case, there are so many examples of this that it would take all the time allocated to this debate to list them all. I propose to examine Bill C-26, before the House today, and you be in a better position to understand my point of view. The rules proposed by the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans are certainly commendable in many respects.

Divorce Act  Yesterday showed how seriously he took this commitment to the Canadian people. Yesterday the government brought in time allocation to cut off debate on Bill C-45, a bill which we should never have debated in the first place. This in itself is not surprising, because the Liberals have closed debate about 24 times in this 35th Parliament, despite their howls of protest to the Tories in the last Parliament when the Tories took similar parliamentary action.

Criminal Code  For example, last year with only two weeks left before the House recessed for the summer, Bills C-41 and C-68 were brought before the House for report stage and third reading, although they had been reported out of committee weeks before. The minister deliberately waited until the eleventh hour and time allocation was used to limit debate and thus exposure for both of these contentious bills. The most recent example of this undemocratic fast tracking is this bill, Bill C-45. Since 1993 the Reform Party has been asking the justice minister to repeal section 745.