“Mr. Speaker, with regard to the whip’s somewhat ridiculous argument, I would say that the Liberals should have about 6.2 people on each committee, and usually when rounding, we round to the nearest whole number. That is six, not seven. We do not round up when the number we are rounding is 6.2. It does not work like that. He finally let the cat out of the bag earlier in his speech. We heard him express his frustration at how the Conservatives have been acting in recent years. I understand that they have been filibustering a lot and that that has not always been easy for the Liberals, but that is no reason to flout parliamentary decency. That is exactly what the Liberals are doing. They are flouting parliamentary decency and failing to respect the rules and traditions of Parliament. I would like my colleague opposite, the government whip, to explain why the Liberals suddenly feel as though they have the right to flout the rules and traditions of Parliament and use their majority to take control of committees, including the ones where the government has to be accountable to the people.”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 21 wordsI take some offence to my comments’ being called ridiculous, especially with what the Bloc Québécois put Elections Canada through recently.Off pointProcedure · 16 wordsHowever, I will put that aside for a second and try to answer the member’s question.ProcedureClaims · 14 wordsIt is completely normal and completely acceptable to suggest that we would redefine committees.Procedure · 6 wordsI ask the Bloc this question: ProcedureThe question · 34 wordsIf the Bloc ever had a majority in the House, which I guess is technically impossible, but if it did, would its members not do the exact same thing, just like the Conservatives would?Reasoning · 38 wordsThis conversation is pretty much moot.Everybody would do the exact same thing, because it is a reasonable thing, and it is a thing Canadians expect to happen when a governing party has a majority in the House.Unearned certainty
