Firearms Act   down the same road as the previous Conservative government. There was an outcry of self-righteousness from the Liberals while they were in opposition over the Conservatives' use of time allocation to ram through legislation. The Liberals had managed to make the most faithful

Firearms Act  Madam Speaker, in listening to the debate I cannot help but wonder why the opposition is all of a sudden so exercised about time allocation when in fact we dialogued about this bill for almost a year. The Minister of Justice went from coast to coast to coast speaking to groups

Firearms Act  Madam Speaker, I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak to the amendments to Bill C-68. The reason I am so delighted is that since the government invoked time allocation last Thursday, I find myself being one of the chosen few who will be able to speak at report stage

Firearms Act   Bill C-68. It has been happening now for well over a year. Members have had discussion papers and briefing documents. It has taken a great deal of time and now is the time to move forward. If the House had to debate each amendment with the appropriate time allocation we would

Questions Passed As Orders For Return   days have passed. Last Thursday the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader said once again that I can expect an answer to my question soon. I know the government is not interested in a free and open debate on the issue of gun control because they have invoked time

Petitions   because of time allocation invoked by the government, let these petitions serve as a reminder that the minister does not have the support of these nor millions of other Canadians.

Firearms Act   of the Reform's amendments. The time allocation imposed by the Liberal government with the co-operation of the separatist Bloc party for both the report stage and the third reading of this bill denies me and my colleagues the opportunity to present evidence to substantiate our amendments

Firearms Act   of times. I was here when Bill C-17 was debated, which was brought in by the former Conservative government. That bill was supported by the hon. member for Kamloops who stood in the House today to say that he was upset with the fact that time allocation had been imposed. During

Firearms Act   debate granted to us by the arrogant and dictatorial Liberal government. While I have the privilege of representing my constituents in the debate against Bill C-68, literally dozens of members of Parliament will be denied that right because of the six-hour time allocation imposed

Alternative Fuels Act  . It seems to be pushing the government to all of these wonderful hours of time allocation and extended hours. Perhaps we could just dispose of this bill.

Business Of The House   a lot of bleating and whining yesterday when we applied a time allocation motion to the debate on it, I want to point out what has gone on here. This bill was introduced in February, debated at second reading on February 16, February 27, March 13, March 27, March 28 and April 5

Business Of The House   of the House are entitled to express their view by a vote. That is the normal way of concluding debate. That is what the government is seeking to do by the time allocation motion it has brought in respect of this bill. I do not know why the government House leader was so generous

Business Of The House   to deal with the question of time allocation that members have raised in the course of their remarks and the extension of hours that we are going to enjoy together next week. The first thing I want to say is that the hon. member for Simcoe Centre talked about what the voters want. He

Business Of The House   it was they voted for in the red book. Every one of the campaign promises from the red book are being enforced in legislation today. The legislation we will be dealing with next week under time allocation was contained in the red book. The government is living up to the commitment it made

Business Of The House   legislation. On the one hand, time allocation or closure is being forced on the House. On the other hand, we are talking about extending the hours. If the government were serious about quality discussion and quality debate on any of the bills, the last thing it should be looking