Business Of The House   if it walks like a pig, if it grunts like a pig, if it smells like a pig, it is probably a pig. If the government is trying to jam things through the House of Commons with closure, time allocation and with extended hours, it is legislation by stealth.

Business Of The House   in time allocation, or closure by any other name, and then go forward with this knowing full well that we are coming to the 23rd. It is no surprise to the government any more than it is a surprise to my leader or any of the members in the House that we are coming to this point and yet

Business Of The House   of amendments that will be tabled before this House on that bill? I understand that there are well over 100 amendments. Yet time allocation is being imposed. Why is Bill C-68, many portions of which will not become mandatory for eight years, being looked at with such urgency? Why could we

Members Of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act   invoked time allocation, thus stifling honest parliamentary debate on matters of great importance to Canadians. It is perhaps appropriate that I speak after the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader because I am one of the people who he referred to as drawing

Members Of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to debate Bill C-85, the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act, and the amendments the government proposes. I am doing it in the short time that remains, given the closure and time allocation tactics of the government. The amendments

Members Of Parliament Retiringallowances Act   they. It is as simple as that. Let me just finish by saying that I was disappointed in what I have seen in this debate. When I was listening to the debate as it was going on and when I heard time allocation being invoked today it made me sad. I sat and had coffee in the last Parliament

Members Of Parliament Retiringallowances Act   the table from the Solicitor General of Canada, the government House leader, and he looked me in the eye and said the government will very rarely use closure. He gave me his word we would see the government use time allocation and closure far less than its predecessor, the arrogant

Members Of Parliament Retiringallowances Act   time allocation to ram this and other bills through the House without proper debate. This is an abuse of our parliamentary system. In speaking to the pension scheme, as I often do when I am speaking on bills in the House, I always refer back to the auditor general's observations

Members Of Parliament Retiringallowances Act   will not even run again but they will retire with the old pension plan that gave six to one in contributions, not this one that gives 3.5 to one. If the government ran on a platform in its red book based on integrity and restoring integrity to politicians, it would not be forcing time

Points Of Order   not even seen all of the amendments. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I bring two points to your attention. Drafters have not had time to draft amendments, so they have not all been tabled. In spite of this, the government has moved time allocation and closure on this bill

Budget Implementation Act, 1995   is possibly the most important aspect of the legislative year. During the debate committee members talked with over 600 members of the Canadian public about the budget. Despite what the member for Kootenay East said in his reference to time allocation, I can say unequivocally

Budget Implementation Act, 1995   to a very profound one-minute statement made by my colleague from Calgary Centre yesterday, and I know that Liberals would want to hear it again: In opposition the Liberals howled at Brian Mulroney with righteous indignation over his government's use of time allocation to ram through

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.

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-