Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Suspension Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak in opposition to the closure or time allocation motion introduced today by the government. This motion refers to Bill C-18, an act to suspend the operation of the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act. It is not good to have the government move

House Of Commons   legislation through Parliament. How the Liberals did abhor the actions they now casually justify. Will the government House leader stand and tell this House that the government will never again for the life of this Parliament resort to such undemocratic tactics as closure through time

House Of Commons  Mr. Speaker, I said on behalf of the government it will be found over the life of this Parliament that this government will be using time allocation and closure far less frequently than its predecessor. I challenge the opposition House leader to raise this again after a few

House Of Commons   confidence in the institutions of government; open government will be the watch word of the Liberal program. Is the use of closure through time allocation one of the initiatives that will be used to restore confidence? Is this what the House leader calls open government?

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Suspension Act  Mr. Speaker, I will try to condense a 20-minute speech into 10 minutes to conform with the time allocation motion which restricts the time I have to address the House. It is a sad day to be speaking, about two months into a new Parliament.

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Suspension Act  Madam Speaker, I would like to say that this is indeed a dark day for democracy. It is a dark day for the parliamentary system. I remember it took the Conservatives at least a few months before they brought in the heavy hand of closure or time allocation. I know

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Suspension Act  Madam Speaker, the hon. member's question reminds me of question period in the afternoon or on Friday morning when a government member plants a question for his minister. I thank the hon. member. We voted against the time allocation motion and against closure because

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Suspension Act   and time allocation would restrict that. Is it not the intent of the overall motion and the process to allow more time for members throughout the entire House to have a fuller discussion about the criteria for boundary setting and to ensure that Canadians are going to be well

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Suspension Act  . member for Waterloo, since his speech covered a variety of topics, including some criticism of the behaviour of Reform Party members. That is not the intent of my speech today. First of all, I must say, it is always distressing to see a government using a motion for time allocation

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Suspension Act  , and we are talking about that. If we did not use time allocation on the bill, we would not have the opportunity to change those costly hearings that are going to take so much time and energy on the part of Canadians. I think that is an important point to know. The suggestion has been

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Suspension Act, 1994  Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. to make a request of the Chair and to make a comment. This House has been recognized as being one without precedent by the fact that there are two new parties and 200 new members in this House. In light of time allocation being imposed

Supply  The time allocated to questions and comments has now expired. My apologies, hon. colleagues. I was following the exchange between the member for Regina-Qu'Appelle and the parliamentary secretary too closely and I misread my list. Before the member for Rimouski-Témiscouata