1998 Legislative Session: 3rd Session, 36th Parliament
Ten o'clock a.m.
Prayers by Mr. Cashore.
The House proceeded to "Orders of the Day."
Order for Committee of Supply called.
Pursuant to Sessional Order, order called for Section A of Committee of Supply (estimates of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs).
Pursuant to Sessional Order, order called for Section B of Committee of Supply (estimates of the Ministry of Forests).
(In Committee -- Section B)
Section B of Committee of Supply reported progress.
Report to be considered at the next sitting.
Committee to sit again at the next sitting.
(In Committee -- Section A)
Section A of Committee of Supply reported progress.
Report to be considered at the next sitting.
Committee to sit again at the next sitting.
And then the House adjourned at 11.53 a.m.
Tuesday, June 9, 1998
Two o'clock p.m.
Order called for "Oral Questions by Members."
The House proceeded to "Orders of the Day."
The Hon. J. MacPhail advised that the House will sit Wednesday, pursuant to Standing Order 2 (2).
Order for Committee of Supply called.
Pursuant to Sessional Order, order called for Section A of Committee of Supply (estimates of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs).
Pursuant to Sessional Order, order called for Section B of Committee of Supply (estimates of the Ministry of Forests).
(In Committee -- Section B)
Section B of Committee of Supply reported progress.
Report to be considered later today.
Committee to sit again later today.
(In Committee -- Section A)
Section A of Committee of Supply reported progress.
Report to be considered later today.
Committee to sit again later today.
On the motion that the House recess until 6.35 p.m. a debate arose.
Pursuant to Standing Order 7 (2) the House recessed for 15 minutes.
Forty-five Minutes past Six o'clock p.m.
The debate continued.
Mr. de Jong moved an amendment to the motion, namely, to replace all of the words after the word "that" with the words "the House do now adjourn".
The Speaker ruled the amendment out of order and referred Members to page 56 of Parliamentary Practice in British Columbia, 3rd edition, and stated that it is the prerogative of the Government House Leader to move a substantive motion to adjourn and that the amendment would have converted the motion to recess into a substantive motion to adjourn.
The debate continued.
On the motion of Mr. de Jong that the House do now adjourn, the House divided.
Motion negatived on the following division:
| YEAS -- 14 | |||
|
C. Clark Farrell-Collins de Jong Reid |
Whittred Penner Weisbeck Hogg |
Hawkins Coleman Symons |
van Dongen Barisoff McKinnon |
NAYS -- 37 | |||
|
Evans Zirnhelt McGregor Kwan Hammell Boone Streifel Pullinger Lali Orcherton |
Stevenson Calendino Goodacre Walsh Randall Gillespie Robertson Cashore Conroy |
Priddy Petter Miller G. Clark Dosanjh MacPhail Lovick Ramsey Farnworth |
Waddell Hartley Sihota Smallwood Bowbrick Kasper Doyle Giesbrecht Janssen |
The debate continued.
On the motion of the Hon. J. MacPhail, Government House Leader, it was Ordered that the House do now adjourn.
And then the House adjourned at 10.05 p.m.
GRETCHEN MANN BREWIN, Speaker
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