“Mr. Speaker, the members opposite can say what they will, but we are dealing with a government that no longer has the slightest regard for our parliamentary traditions. It started in the previous Parliament, when the government decided to change the rules of how the House operates without unanimous consent. Today, they are telling us that it is normal for a majority government to have a majority on committees. That is true, but I asked the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons a question, and he was unable to answer. I would like my colleague to tell me when, in the recent history of the House, a government with a very slim majority decided to give itself a supermajority on committees. I would like him to tell me whether it is not more in keeping with the traditions of the House for a government’s majority on committees to be proportional and similar to the one it has in the House of Commons.”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 61 wordsit is shocking that members speak to parliamentary tradition, but they do not look to the actual history of this place, where this always happens.Again, I point the member to House of Commons Procedure and Practice, first edition, page 819: “Where the governing party has a majority in the House, it will also have a majority on every House committee.”1
