Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills   remember that closure or time allocation was invoked on both of them. There was a lot of debate that had not yet taken place, not only in this place but across the country, because there seems to be a period where things can be debated in the House and the general public has not caught

Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills  Order, please. While the member is looking for that additional information, could he assist the Chair and indicate if he is sharing his time or will he be taking up the remainder of the time allocated to him?

Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills   and that they feel they have no voice here. That is why 40% of them checked out of the last election. The government is going for a legacy, a legacy of invoking closure or time allocation 78 times. The last government did it 72 times. Why would the government want to continue that legacy?

Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills  Mr. Speaker, in terms of the use of time allocation, in the U.K. house actually every bill is allocated to the same date it is read. In other words, at the end of every day, whatever is being debated, there is a vote. The hon. member is complaining about free votes. I know

Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills  Mr. Speaker, this is the 75th time that closure or time allocation has been applied; whoever is in power, government always acts the same way. This government reminds me of a student driver. Sometimes, it steps on the wrong pedal; sometimes, it speeds up or brakes for no good

Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills  Mr. Speaker, there are so many things wrong with those allegations one barely knows where to start. The hon. member says I have moved time allocation. I have not. I have moved closure, as a matter of fact. He talks about an omnibus bill. There is no omnibus bill before

Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills   some much-needed democratic reform to this institution. I want to ask the minister about the democratic deficit as well, which his future boss, the former finance minister, has belatedly been musing about. The government has invoked closure and time allocation a total of 78 times

Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills   is proposing to bring in time allocation, which of course is very, very anti-democratic, on an omnibus bill which is democratically suspect, at a time when the government is also enjoying the fruits of a throne speech and all the wonderful media hype that goes with it but at the same time

Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills   participated and unanimously recommended to the House. The House unanimously adopted the changes we proposed. One of these changes was the procedure that exists this morning, whereby when closure or time allocation is required, which it is today, there is a half-hour debate in the House

Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills   saying that it does not want to go along with that and that it will force the government to use closure. This is maybe the second time since I have been in Parliament that closure has actually been used. There has been a number of instances of time allocation. Time allocation

Committee Business and Reinstatement of Government Bills  Madam Speaker, I appreciate what the member had to say. What concerns me about the reinstatement, speaking generally and not about any particular bill, is the process used by the government. It brings in legislation and more frequently than any other government uses time

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply   member voted with the government to shut down debate either through time allocation or simply using closure motions in the House of Commons. The hon. member for Winnipeg--Transcona is a long serving member of the House of Commons. He may want to reference other governments, but let

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply   of the few developed democracies that have no clear rules of conflict for ministers and MPs and we are also the last jurisdiction in Canada to have them. There is more to the government's record on this than those failures. The government has used closure and time allocation more

Intoxication of Migratory Birds  Unfortunately the member only had two minutes left in the time allocated. The time provided for the consideration of private members' business has now expired. The order is dropped to the bottom of the order of precedence on the order paper. A motion to adjourn the House under

Species at Risk Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to split my time allocation with another member from the government side. I am speaking today in support of the species at risk legislation, a piece of legislation that has been, believe it or not, nine years in the making. Throughout that nine years