Discussion · Government Orders
Steven MacKinnon Liberal
“A committee chair should not have to break a tie on every vote. That is why we added two government members to committees without taking seats away from the other parties.”
“Mr. Speaker, since the Speaker of the House of Commons is not called upon to break a tie on every vote here in this chamber, we also do not believe that a committee chair should systematically be called upon to break a tie. That is why we added two members from the party in power, without diminishing the Bloc Québécois’s or the Conservative Party’s representation.”
Official Hansard
Mr. Speaker, since the Speaker of the House of Commons is not called upon to break a tie on every vote here in this chamber, we also do not believe that a committee chair should systematically be called upon to break a tie. That is why we added two members from the party in power, without diminishing the Bloc Québécois’s or the Conservative Party’s representation.