Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills   some much-needed democratic reform to this institution. I want to ask the minister about the democratic deficit as well, which his future boss, the former finance minister, has belatedly been musing about. The government has invoked closure and time allocation a total of 78 times

Privilege   of parliament, other than the Prime Minister and his little group, have any effect on what goes on in the House. I am extremely concerned about that, and I have expressed my concern about that before. Let us look at the issue of time allocation. It was a very few years ago when time

Employment Insurance Act   of time that I have been a member of parliament more often than not when I get up to speak it is during a time allocation situation. I am not saying that all bills which go through the House of Commons end up with some form of closure or time allocation but, by some bizarre freak

Modernization Of House Of Commons Procedure   orders, along with the Liberal Party's way of doing things, are far from advancing the cause of democracy. Time allocation motions pursuant to Standing Order 78, which are commonly referred to as gag orders, should be exceptional measures used as a last resort. It is good

Standing Orders   ability to hold up government legislation and to make the public aware of opposition points of view on contentious legislation. I would like you to remember, Mr. Speaker the challenge I gave you the first time the government used time allocation or restricted debate in this session. I

Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act   forward by the hon. minister of heritage, the very minister who is putting forward this bill. We will quite likely never get to Group No. 2. The reality is that through the use of time allocation by this government we on this side of the House will never have the opportunity

Privilege   there somewhere in never-never land waiting for the committee to be comprised. I think we have to look at all the factual circumstances here. The government House leader has jumped the gun. He has brought in time allocation, and I will not use a vulgar analogy about why dogs do certain things

Privilege  , is ludicrous. It is insulting to Canadians. This legislation, which the government now diminishes by bringing in time allocation, was important enough to dangle in front of the electorate just prior to the election call. Let the record show that the bill, had it been so important

Privilege  The hon. member across argues so what, so what if the rules are being bypassed this way. I would like to tell the House about the precedence of time allocation. I ask all colleagues to listen attentively to the issue of Bill 19, the school amendment act in the province

Species at Risk Act  Mr. Speaker, I was going to say it was a pleasure to join in the debate this evening on Bill C-5, the species at risk legislation, but it is not. The reason is because for the 77th time the Liberal government has brought in time allocation to shut down debate on an important

Species at Risk Act  Mr. Speaker, the Alliance should get off the idea that time allocation is being used today without any background or because we simply dreamed it up. Let us look at what the Alliance has done. On April 17 the Leader of the Opposition made a two and a half hour speech to table

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, first, I would remind the House that the hon. member for Prince Albert, a member of the same party as the person who just spoke, said if the government intended to get the bill through it would need to use time allocation. The opposition told us the only way to get

Privilege  Mr. Speaker, my question of privilege arises out of a motion that the government intends to move with respect to time allocation on Bill C-15B. As you are aware, Mr. Speaker, on Friday the government House leader gave notice of his intention to close off debate on this important

Supply   been the finance minister, he invoked closure or time allocation at least 13 times on his own legislation in the House. We think, well okay, maybe he had no choice; maybe he was just part of cabinet and had no opportunity to change that. He certainly had that opportunity when he

Supply   through debate in the House today that the government has failed the Canadian people through not delivering on the following promises. They failed on their commitment to not use time allocation and closure. They failed on the issue of an independent ethics counsellor. They punish