Budget Implementation Act, 1995   intelligent remarks on this bill. Virtually everyone had spoken. The well was running dry. By using time allocation today we are in fact helping the opposition. Let us turn to their criticisms of the budget. We are getting it on both sides. It is worth the opposition parties hearing

Lobbyists Registration Act   to please the lucky few who can afford to send lobbyists to Parliament Hill by exempting them. Within the time allocated to me, I will try to explain clearly each of the flaws I identified in this bill. As I said earlier, the first flaw concerns the ethics counsellor. Need I remind

Members Of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act   as this bill works its way through the system, the Liberals use time allocation on this bill. I will predict the Liberals will use time allocation on Bill C-85, the pension plan bill. That is totally unworthy of government members who pride themselves on parliamentary reform, integrity

Members Of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act   is cutting off debate. Often, as the hon. member knows, when we have used time allocation in the past we have offered to sit late to avoid having to use time allocation so members could get an opportunity to express their views. That is exactly what we are doing tonight. I want to ensure

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

Supply   and doing other work. The House leader for Reform should say that when that motion was moved to adjourn the debate yesterday Reform had no more speakers. It was just half an hour before the time allocated for government orders of the day would have ended. Instead of allowing the normal

Supply   the government's use of time allocation. Honestly, if the hon. member had been here in the last Parliament he would have learned a lot about time allocation and closure. There are two rules, which the hon. member should know. We have not used the closure rule recently. I do not know whether we

Privilege   of the committee then proceeded to move time allocation, restricting the debate to five minutes per clause, and this after two hours of committee proceedings. Five total minutes was given for all parties on this clause by clause. This is totally unacceptable. There were clauses last night

Privilege   that we have always tried to co-operate and that the hon. member is quite brazen, to say the least, in claiming that his remarks were cut off, as a look at the time allocated shows that the hon. member for Fraser Valley East took up between 80 and 90 per cent of the time available

Government Legislation   by Reform. Reform MPs were not allowed to submit amendments in the language of their choice. They were refused the right to speak to some clauses due to a time allocation of five minutes per clause. On the MP pension bill, only expert witnesses are allowed to testify. MPs and ordinary

Time Allocation  Mr. Speaker, in opposition the Liberals howled at Brian Mulroney with righteous indignation over his government's use of time allocation to ram through legislation. With such sincere compassion for democracy, one would expect this Liberal government's record in the use of time

Budget Implementation Act, 1995   are we affected by this?" I would like to take the opportunity-I feel compelled to because of the time allocation forced on us by the government-to draw the hon. members' attention to a rather treacherous aspect of Bill C-76, which is an omnibus bill. With clause 69, 3,000 resistance

Budget Implementation Act, 1995   that the government was invoking time allocation and that this closure motion by government was going to shut down debate on a bill that essentially, for all intents and purposes, is one of the most important-

Budget Implementation Act, 1995  Mr. Speaker, I realize the parliamentary secretary is engaging in debate. He knows that time allocation is a closure motion no matter what it is called. Members of Parliament from various parts of Canada will not be allowed to say what they want if there is not enough time

Budget Implementation Act, 1995  Mr. Speaker, a point of order. There is great sensitivity among Canadians to the word "closure". The government is very proud of the fact that it has not used closure. The hon. member slipped up by describing time allocation as closure.