“Mr. Speaker, my hon. colleague is well aware that the Liberals are good at saying one thing and doing another. They are telling us that committees must reflect the composition of the House of Commons. I think my colleague and everyone here agrees with that principle. I would like to hear my colleague’s thoughts on this: The government members want to give themselves 58.3% representation on committees when they hold only 50.7% of the seats in Parliament. They are trying to force that on us. They are pretending to be innocently trying to make the committee membership reflect their majority, when they are actually trying to impose an unjustified supermajority.”
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Mr. Speaker, Procedure · 2 wordsI agree.ProcedureClaims · 37 wordsThe Liberals talk about the percentages reflecting the makeup of the House.They have given themselves a much larger percentage of committee makeup than they have in the House.Even in their own actions, they contradict themselves.Reasoning · 20 wordsThey contradict themselves on the need for this at all, because there is legislation that has moved through the House.Claims · 90 wordsThey contradict themselves when they talk about two-tier committees.There are two tiers of committees.There are the oversight committees, which are specially treated in the Standing Orders and have their own conventions and practices, and then there are the rest of the standing committees, which provide for oversight on departments and deal with legislation.The member is right.In this very motion, the Liberals are not reflecting the makeup of the House in committees.They are giving themselves about eight percentage points more.1I agree with my hon. colleague, The ask · 23 wordsand I hope he agrees with our amendment to at least preserve the oversight role of the operations, public accounts and ethics committees.
