Budget Implementation Act, 2001   the floor from the opposition benches to the Liberal benches, voted to shut down the debate. Closure and time allocation would not be necessary if we treated with dignity the ideas and the conclusions of members of parliament and, as a matter of fact, the recommendations

Budget Implementation Act, 2001  Mr. Speaker, I cannot tell the House how incensed I am that the government is not listening. I was on the finance committee. Every witness said this was wrong because it would kill service to small communities. Yet the government is invoking time allocation to speed through

Youth Criminal Justice Act  Mr. Speaker, I am very grateful that you recognized me because with the time allocation motion just passed, had you not I would have been precluded from speaking on this since I have committee duties immediately following question period today. I would like to begin by saying

Public Sector Pension Investment Board Act  Mr. Speaker, I would be delighted if you came to visit my riding. Seeing all the regions and all the regional county municipalities is something you will never forget. I am very pleased to speak to the motions in Group No. 3. I remind the House that time allocation has been

Reinstatement of Government Bills   an election for people who consider themselves to be the naturally governing party in a general election--and then turn around and say that he is going to take some of these old bills that have been passed? We noted that the government under Jean Chrétien made use of time allocation 75

Reinstatement of Government Bills   only procedurally opens the door to allowing bills to come back into the House in the same position they were in when the House prorogued, noting of course that the House has already invested time and procedure in dealing with the bills. Therefore, even if time allocation has been

Budget Implementation Act, 1998  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to debate Bill C-36. I begin by expressing my regret that debate on this bill has been limited by the government's time allocation motion. I understand this is the fourth time in this parliament alone that closure or time allocation has been

Points Of Order   in this respect. I do not think it is a matter of numbers, although it does stand as a condemnation of the government that it has now broken the record of a previous government with respect to the introduction of time allocation. I nevertheless think that if the Chair were to exercise

Points Of Order  Mr. Speaker, earlier today you ruled that I could not raise a question of privilege regarding the putting of a motion on time allocation, even though the notice of time allocation had been given by the government House leader and we knew that it was going to be before the House

Committees Of The House   brought in that thing called time allocation. Yes, members remember it well. My notes tell me that time allocation was brought in 66 times over nine years. Today we are not celebrating and having a party; we are having what might be called a wake. In six years' time the Liberals have

Foreign Publishers Advertising Services Act   to impose time allocation yet again for the 49th time. Due to this time allocation at report stage, there is no assurance that this arrogant Liberal government will not impose time allocation as well at third reading despite what the hon. member preceding me had to say about

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act  Madam Speaker, it is very interesting to listen to the Liberals go on and on and on trying to explain around the issue of time allocation. The reality nonetheless is that in the 35th parliament the Liberals used time allocation 35 times, 32 time allocation motions and three

Modernization and Improvement of the Procedures of the House of Commons   whose passage involves closure or time allocation to justify the use of closure in a 30 minute question and answer session. This would make the government pay a political price each time it invoked closure. It would ensure Canadians received an explanation from the minister

Modernization and Improvement of the Procedures of the House of Commons   inspire ourselves from the work done by other parliaments. Let us examine some of the recommendations. For example, we have recommended increased ministerial responsibility. I will give a few examples of this. There will be a 30 minute debate on the use of time allocation and closure

Budget Implementation Act, 1995   to a very profound one-minute statement made by my colleague from Calgary Centre yesterday, and I know that Liberals would want to hear it again: In opposition the Liberals howled at Brian Mulroney with righteous indignation over his government's use of time allocation to ram through