1996 British Columbia Summer Games  Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to rise in the House to announce that the neighbouring cities of Trail and Castlegar in the riding of Kootenay West-Revelstoke have jointly been selected as the location for the 1996 British Columbia Summer Games. Kootenay West-Revelstoke is made up of many small towns and communities, the largest having a population of about 10,000.

House Of Commons Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, if the hon. member had listened carefully to my speech, he would have heard that I did applalud the government's actions in my speech.

Cigarette Taxes  Mr. Speaker, many of my constituents are greatly concerned by the suggestion that the government may be about to lower the taxes on cigarettes. The concerns range from the loss of revenue to the increase in health costs due to the effects of smoking. Now the health minister for the province of British Columbia has added his voice to those of my constituents.

House Of Commons Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, in the first instance there are other examples in which this technology has been and is being applied. A variety of examples can be made. For example, I referred to Vice-President Al Gore who conducted a town hall meeting electronically and people virtually from right across the United States, from one end to the other, were able to talk to one another in this particular instance via a computer network.

House Of Commons Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question. It gives me the opportunity to expand a little. Some valid reasons that I suggested earlier in my speech might be a criminal act by a member or a proven failure to properly represent the constituency. I do not pretend to be the person who would write the legislation or who has taken sufficient input to know all the reasons that could be valid.

House Of Commons Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, I can see that the hon. member opposite has not yet been made immune to recall phobia disease, but I am pleased he paid attention and did not notice the squirming around him at the time. This is not a matter of popularity of the government. It is a matter of individual recall.

House Of Commons Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his question. I suspect as a result of his question in the House that he will get some telephone calls from his riding requesting that there be recall. I can see that he has not yet been made immune to recall phobia disease either. I hope we will manage to make some progress on this over the ensuing months.

House Of Commons Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the hon. member on his speech. I concur with just about everything. However, in agreeing with the member on the atrocity of the pensions and in fact in MPs collecting pensions prior to 60 or 65 years of age, while agreeing with the member-and it is hard for anyone in Canada to disagree-I have to point out right now that there are former members of the House who lost in the last election who are collecting pensions way before they are 60.

House Of Commons Standing Orders  Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the hon. member for an interesting and very well intended speech. I am pleased to hear of the possibility that committee members could receive the bill beforehand. This would certainly be beneficial for everyone and I thank him for saying that. I would also like to mention what the hon. member just said about the times changing.

House Of Commons Standing Orders  Often one of the reasons that one has very brash reactions from the general public is that it does not seem to be able to vent that feeling somewhere. This matter concerns both federal and provincial taxation. It could be open to a citizen's initiative. Potentially we could even have a referendum on it but it takes a bit of time to do that type of thing.

Crown Liability And Proceedings Act  Mr. Speaker, the commission makes a ruling. I believe that ruling will then become an order of the Federal Court of Canada. There is the issue of compliance with that order. I am certain that companies will be looking at the marketplace to see whether those orders are being complied with.

Crown Liability And Proceedings Act  Mr. Speaker, I make a comment for clarification on this additional measure. Can it be explained in plain language on the record, how a local citizen or a company could intervene when they observe in the marketplace that these new orders of the Federal Court, generated from this tripartite commission, can bring others to account, that these new orders will be obeyed and observed both here in Canada and in comparable jurisdictions.

Justice  Mr. Speaker, my compliments to the hon. minister for giving such a full, complete and direct answer when direct answers from this government are sometimes very hard to come by.

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance. Earlier this week the minister stated that virtually everybody at the pre-budget consultation conferences supported augmenting the revenue side. Mr. Jason Kenney, national director of Canadian Taxpayers Federation and a great many other people have advised me that as participants at the Calgary conference, every workshop called for no increase in taxation.

Justice  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Justice. On January 4, 1994 I wrote to the minister with regard to the case of Patrick Kelly. He is the former RCMP officer convicted of murdering his wife in 1981. Since his conviction the crown's key witness, whose testimony convicted Mr.