Dna Identification Act  Madam Speaker, we can hear the jackboots marching. A time allocation measure has been brought in on Bill C-3 and there is absolutely no good reason for it. Indeed, we did not have a situation where the opposition was trying to run up as many members as possible to speak

Committees Of The House  It was not bike weather. The member got that right. In the 35th parliament which started on January 17, 1994, 37 times the government closed off debate with 32 time allocation motions and 5 closure motions. It is unbelievable. In the 36th parliament, which is still ongoing

House Of Commons   at a time when I urged him to intervene to prevent time allocation on a motion having to do with free trade. He took a different view of what his responsibilities and capabilities were under the rules at that time. That was a ruling which very much favoured the government. The fact

Parliamentary Reform   a motion of time allocation or closure is heard. We still think that the Speaker should have the authority to protect Parliament and a minority point of view in Parliament from being abused in a time-allocated way by the majority. It is not unusual for speakers in other parliaments

Modernization Of House Of Commons Procedure   allocation within a day or two. Then it is off to committee instead of letting the debate go on, having the debate noticed by the media because it is not always noticed right away, and playing a kind of parliamentary chicken with public opinion. That has disappeared. We have time

Reinstatement of Government Bills  . It took all of six days for the new Prime Minister to use the most blunt instruments in the parliamentary arsenal. Closure and time allocation are not standard procedures of the House. They should be our last resort, not our first response. This chamber was designed as a place

Reinstatement of Government Bills   constantly denied in the House by two means: by restricting free votes and by invoking closure or time allocation. How many times, in his records, has he invoked closure or time allocation? Probably 85 times, which is a record in parliamentary history. It has been emphasized

Standing Orders  . However, it could have addressed some of the concerns members of the opposition have, for instance, with respect to time allocation. In the dying days of the last parliament there were discussions about creating some kind of mechanism whereby if the government wanted to move time

Privilege   government—and these figures are meant for you, Mr. Speaker, and I hope they will guide you in your ruling—during the 28th parliament, the ratio of time allocation motions to the number of sitting days was 0.3%. This means that, at the time, for 0.3% of sitting days, debate was held under

Privilege  When my colleague speaks of a threat to democracy, when debate on 21% of the bills introduced in this House end in time allocation, we are entitled to ask where the government is headed with this. The ratio of time allocation to bills receiving royal assent was 1.3% under

Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills   saying that it does not want to go along with that and that it will force the government to use closure. This is maybe the second time since I have been in Parliament that closure has actually been used. There has been a number of instances of time allocation. Time allocation

Specific Claims Resolution Act  Madam Speaker, I appreciate what the member had to say in respect to this bill. We have heard some comments from the minister and the parliamentary secretary and others across the way with respect to the issue of time allocation. I am confident with what I have seen

Privilege   on March 1, 2001 on a similar point, a decision to which the hon. member for West Vancouver--Sunshine Coast referred when he made his argument. He said it was the 69th time the government had used time allocation and he felt that he should raise the issue then. He did and I made

Privilege  No, Mr. Speaker, I have a few more. On page 369 of Marleau and Montpetit there is a reference to an intervention by the Speaker on a time allocation related tactic used by the government. It describes how Speaker Fraser ruled on the government tactic of skipping over routine

Civil International Space Station Agreement Implementation Act   find it ironic that I stand in the House today on a bill with which we basically agree. I also want to talk about what went on in the House yesterday with time allocation. We were expected to talk about the Nisga'a agreement which involves as much money or maybe even more money than