Species at Risk Act   the Liberals will be an endangered species on the ballots in the next federal election. Through the use of time allocation, the abuse of tax dollars, the refusal to have an ethics counsellor that reports to and is accountable to parliament, the government is doing more to destroy the trust

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  I also wish to inform the House that because of the proceedings on the time allocation motion, government orders will be extended by 30 minutes.

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

Species at Risk Act  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member came in perhaps a trifle late. As you explained, the debate is on the issue of time allocation. Certainly, if I am permitted to depart from that strict issue, I would give the greatest credit to the committee members, including the hon. member who

Species at Risk Act  . This is the third attempt and it still does not have it right. The government just invoked time allocation which would seriously restrict debate. It does not care to listen to the concerns of Canadians any longer. How shameful. The Minister of the Environment has heard from the farmers

Species at Risk Act  Mr. Speaker, the first point made by the hon. member was that the time allocation motion should not be put. I point out to him when we combine Bill C-5 with the two preceding pieces of legislation, Bills C-33 and C-65, we have had a total of 93 days of debate in the House

Main Estimates, 2002-03   and then we are simply unable to deal in detail with votes that come up later on the agenda, notwithstanding their importance. I can give a couple of examples. When Bill C-36, the Anti-terrorism Act, was up for debate, the House got hung up on a motion that I had put forward when time

Canada Post Corporation Act   the government to enter into time allocation to effectively bring it to a conclusion and advance it to the other place. We are very pleased that we have now done so. It is now in the other place and we will see more benefits accruing to the legitimate firearms owners in Canada through

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals and firearms) and the Firearms Act  Mr. Speaker, it is unfortunate that because of closure or time allocation we have only a couple of minutes left and I cannot raise many more issues. I am going to go quickly through a couple of things. First I want to reply to the previous Liberal member who spoke. I think he

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals and firearms) and the Firearms Act   some laws that will provide protection for animals. Have members ever in history seen a situation where people have demonstrated and called for the government to invoke closure? It is unheard of. Let us put this issue of time allocation in perspective. The bill was originally

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals and firearms) and the Firearms Act   about the legislation is that at noon today the government decided we would have no more democratic debate on the bill and it brought in time allocation. It brought in time allocation I believe for the 76th time in the history of this government. It has used time allocation more than

Presence in Gallery  I wish to inform the House that, because of the debate on the time allocation motion, government orders will be extended by 30 minutes.

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals and firearms) and the Firearms Act  Mr. Speaker, with regard to the question of time allocation, I think I was clear at the beginning of my involvement in the sense that we are talking about third reading, five days and 40 speakers, but it is 40 speakers at just this stage in the process. We can imagine how many

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals and firearms) and the Firearms Act  Mr. Speaker, the government has no business invoking time allocation on this piece of legislation. It has said we have had 40 speakers. That is only 13% of speakers if everyone spoke only once on the bill. This is an extremely important piece of legislation that could have