|
Ordered, That the House
recommends that notwithstanding any Standing Order or prior
recommendation of the House, the Speaker conduct the proceedings
of the House during the 38th Parliament as
follows:
The Speaker should exercise his
discretion to permit questions as follows:
Official Opposition - 1 question
and 2 supplementary questions
Official Opposition - 1 question
and 2 supplementary questions
Third Party - 1 question and 1
supplementary question
Third Party - 1 question and 1
supplementary question
Followed by a rotation
of:
Official Opposition - 1 question
and 1 supplementary question
Government - 1 question and 1
supplementary question
Official Opposition - 1 question
and 1 supplementary question
Government - 1 question and 1
supplementary question
Any one Independent Member - 1
question and 1 supplementary question repeated
thereafter;
And that there shall be 4
Members' Statements allotted to both the Government and the
Official Opposition and 1 Members' Statement allotted to the
Third Party, with the rotation as follows:
Official Opposition; Government;
Official Opposition; Government; Third Party; Government;
Official Opposition; Government; Official Opposition;
And that in exercising his
discretion with respect to the practice of rotation on debates
pursuant to Standing Order 24, the Speaker adopt the following
rotation:
Following the Lead off speaker
for each recognized Party:
The first Member of the Third
Party to speak may speak for not more than 30 minutes
Then:
Government, Official Opposition,
Government, Official Opposition; Third Party, and then repeat the
rotation;
And, in debate governed by this
Standing Order any Member of the Third Party may divide his or
her time among any other Member or Members of the Third
Party;
And that following ministerial
statements and the comments of the Official Opposition a Member
or Members of the Third Party may comment for up to a total of 5
minutes;
And that the Third Party shall
be entitled to 1 of the 5 Sessional days known as Opposition Days
and that 15% of the time available for debate under Standing
Order 42 shall be allocated to the Third Party with the time
remaining apportioned equally between the recognized Parties; and
if the mover of a motion under this Standing Order is a Member of
the Third Party the time for a reply shall be included in the
time allocated to the Third Party;
And that in any session, the
Third Party shall be entitled, upon proper notice, to 1 of the 3
motions of want of confidence in the government and debate time
on such a motion shall be apportioned in the same manner set out
in this motion for Opposition Days;
And that with respect to the
time available for debate on
Time Allocation motions (S.O.
46);
Concurrences (S.O.
62);
Supply Act (S.O. 63)
and
Interim Supply (S.O.
66),
15% of the time available for
debate on each such matter shall be allocated to the Third Party
with the time remaining apportioned equally between the
recognized Parties;
And that the Member of the Third
Party on the Standing Committee on Estimates may speak for not
more than 30 minutes on the first Item of the first Vote of each
set of Estimates and thereafter shall be apportioned an amount of
time equal to that allocated to the Members of recognized parties
on the Committee;
And that when time permits,
amendments proposed to be moved to bills in any Committee shall
be distributed to all Members of the Committee;
And that for the purpose of
Private Members' Public Business, a period of 18 minutes shall be
allotted to each of the recognized Parties in the House and 9
minutes to the Third Party for the purpose of debate during
Private Members' Public Business;
And that the Member of the Third
Party on any Standing Committee is entitled to be appointed to
the Sub-committee on Committee Business;
And that with respect to
Committee membership, Members of the Third Party be allowed to
substitute for each other, provided a notification signed by the
Member being substituted for or by his or her designate is filed
with the Clerk of the Committee either before or within 30
minutes of a Committee meeting being called to order;
And that with respect to
compendiums of information, Government notices of motion or any
document required to be laid before the House, for which there is
a Standing Order requirement that copies be provided to a
representative or representatives of a recognized Party, 7 copies
of such documents shall be provided to the Table to be made
available to Members of the Third Party upon request;
And that the passage of any
motion to amend the Standing Orders, which alters the numeration,
shall not impact on any process set out in this
motion.
|
