“Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Kings—Hants can thank me. Because of me, he had a slightly larger audience during his speech. Half of them left afterward, but that was down to him. He will have to manage that with is colleagues. The other comment we heard while you were counting members was that I was interrupting the debate. If there is no one to debate, there is no debate; it is called a monologue. Government members have to be present for a debate to happen. The Leader of the Government in the House of Commons said, “We are proposing to adjust committee membership proportionally to reflect the party standings in the House.” If we did that proportionally, the Liberals would be entitled to 6.2% or 6.3% representation in committee. As anyone who has done first-year high school math knows, that would be rounded to the nearest whole number. In this case, Liberal representation in committee would therefore amount to six members. How does my colleague explain the creative math that his leader and his government used to calculate party representation in committee?”
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Mr. Speaker, Claims · 22 wordsit is very difficult to have 6.2 members per committee.Tradition dictates that the composition of committees reflect that of the House.1Procedure · 2 wordsFor example, ProcedureReasoning · 33 wordsif the Liberal Party holds a majority of seats here in the House of Commons, then of course it is possible to have a majority vote.Parliamentary committees need to reflect that reality.Claims · 30 wordsThat is why we need seven Liberal members on each parliamentary committee and not six.2That will also enable the Conservatives to maintain the same level of representation at committee.
