Time Allocation  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the government House leader who in March in this House invited me to bring to his attention excessive use of time allocation and closure. I would like to share some quotes with the House on the subject of closure. The member for Ottawa-Vanier

Time Allocation  Mr. Speaker, the comments quoted are quite relevant when there is excessive use of closure. Unfortunately for the hon. member's question what happened yesterday was not closure. We used the time allocation rules of the House and they were not used to force a decision

Time Allocation  Mr. Speaker, several amendments were brought forward in this House and received almost no debate as result of closure motions, time allocation and closure, I might add. Members of the current government when they were in opposition consistently maintained that these activities

Time Allocation  Mr. Speaker, how does the Reform House leader explain his party's attempt to filibuster an agreement worked out over a period of 21 years in a democratic fashion by the people of Yukon? He cannot explain that because they were wrong in their filibuster.

Time Allocation   on restoring honesty and integrity to Parliament. Can the government House leader explain where is his government's integrity after the unprecedented action last night of imposing closure and time allocation on no less than four pieces of legislation-

Time Allocation  It is true we are getting toward the end but I would hope that questions would be a little more compact as I hope will be the answers as well.

Time Allocation  Mr. Speaker, the people across the country and in the Yukon who are watching will want to know that these bills did not suddenly come up yesterday. They were available publicly days, if not weeks, before yesterday. The Yukon bills were studied for over 20 hours in committee. Ins

Yukon First Nations Land Claims Settlement Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like a ruling from the Chair that this is in fact possible under the closure motion that has been put forward and the time allocation of one hour, that this House can assure that Reform MPs will have either one member for 20 minutes or two members for 10

Department Of Citizenship And Immigration Act   closure would be used on a housekeeping bill such as this one. I would simply quote the member for Kingston and the Islands: I want to start by talking about the fact that the government is using time allocation once again on this bill. Just to remind the House and the Canadian public

Infrastructure Program   million and creating some 700,000 jobs in that province. This is only the beginning. I am pleased to say that we have to this point in time allocated more than two-thirds of the money under the $6 billion infrastructure program. There are over 6,500 projects across the country and so

Department Of Canadian Heritage Act   in order to fulfil a mandate given by the Canadian government. It is very difficult to swallow. During an election campaign, for example, the air time allocated to the main political parties is monitored to the second. If one party gets more coverage than another, the news room

Yukon Surface Rights Board Act   negotiated over a period of some 20 years, a period of closed door meetings and backroom deals typical of our old governments and old political parties. To make matters worse, the government then stifled debate in the month of June in the House by evoking time allocation. This entire

Budgetary Policy   than December 7, 1994. The committee was supposed to table this report on December 2. The motion under consideration asks us to authorize the committee to postpone this report until a later date. This will reduce the time allocated for consideration of this report. It is an old

Young Offenders Act   to the maximums on the times allocated to them under the old provisions. We have to talk about who needs to know when the youth gets in trouble. That also was a concern of the public. It wants to be aware of who is offending and why this is happening in its communities. Again, we have taken

Canadian Volunteer Service Medal For United Nations Peacekeeping Act   before the House. We share with him a strong desire to give fitting recognition to Canadians who serve in these vital and often dangerous operations. However, I regretfully cannot support this initiative and I want to use the time allocated to me today to explain my position to my