2000 Legislative Session: 4th Session, 36th Parliament
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Nos. 21 and 22
OF THE
Thursday, April 13, 2000
Ten o'clock a.m.
Prayers by Mr. Nettleton.
The House proceeded to "Orders of the Day."
On the motion for second reading of Bill (No. 5) intituled Holocaust Memorial Day Act, a debate arose.
The debate continued.
The House divided.
Motion agreed to nemine contradicente on the following division:
| YEAS -- 67 | |||
| Evans Doyle McGregor Sawicki Kwan Lali Hammell Pullinger Bowbrick Mann Brewin Boone Orcherton Calendino Zirnhelt Randall Robertson Sihota |
Cashore Conroy Smallwood Miller MacPhail Dosanjh Petter Lovick Priddy Ramsey G. F. Wilson Farnworth Waddell Stevenson Gillespie Streifel Walsh |
Kasper Giesbrecht Whittred Hansen C. Clark Campbell Farrell-Collins de Jong Plant Abbott Neufeld Coell Chong Sanders Jarvis Anderson Nettleton |
Penner Goodacre Weisbeck Nebbeling Hogg Hawkins Coleman J. Reid Krueger Thorpe Symons van Dongen Barisoff Roddick Masi Janssen |
Bill (No. 5) read a second time.
By leave, Bill (No. 5) was committed, reported complete without amendment, and by leave, read a third time and passed.
And then the House adjourned at 11.59 a.m.
Thursday, April 13, 2000
Two o'clock p.m.
Order called for "Oral Questions by Members."
The Hon. S. Hammell (Minister of Multiculturalism and Immigration) made a ministerial statement regarding Vaisakhi Day.
Mr. Campbell made a statement.
By leave, the Hon. H. Lali made a statement.
The Hon. J. Pullinger (Minister of Social Development and Economic Security) tabled the Ministry of Human Resources Annual Report 1996/1997, 1997/1998.
The Hon. D. Lovick (Minister of Aboriginal Affairs) tabled the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs Annual Report 1998/1999.
The House proceeded to "Orders of the Day."
Pursuant to Order, the House resumed the adjourned debate on the motion "That the Speaker do now leave the Chair" for the House to go into Committee of Supply.
The debate continued.
On the motion of Mr. Neufeld, the debate was adjourned to the next sitting of the House.
The Speaker made the following statement:
Honourable Members:
On April 10th, the Honourable Member for Okanagan-Penticton reserved his right to speak on a matter he characterised as a question of privilege with respect to certain comments attributed to him in the House by the Minister of Employment and Investment. On April 11th, the Honourable Member rose on the same matter under Standing Order 42 (1) in order to correct the same comments attributed to him by the Minister and sought a withdrawal. The Minister subsequently responded and the matter was resolved satisfactorily.
I wish to caution Members that complaints such as these cannot be used as a foundation to raise a question of privilege as the Member for Okanagan-Penticton initially proposed to do.
Moreover, Standing Order 42 (1) provides that a Member may rise in the House and speak "in explanation of a material part of his or her speech which may have been misquoted or misunderstood, and no debate shall be allowed on such explanations."
The intent of Standing Order 42 (1) is to afford an opportunity to a Member to make further remarks after concluding a speech by way of explanation before the end of the debate if that Member conceives himself or herself to have been misunderstood in his or her speech in the House. That is the sole purpose of Standing Order 42 (1).
In this instance, the Member's complaint did not fit under Standing Order 42 (1), nor did it qualify as a matter of privilege.
The proper recourse for the Member in these circumstances, is to rise on a point of order and state the facts in a brief, succinct manner and without debate, to correct the record.
Bill Hartley, Speaker
And then the House adjourned at 5.54 p.m.
BILL HARTLEY, Speaker
NOTICE OF MOTIONS
Monday, April 17
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