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House Hansard - 206

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 5, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 206 - Jun/5/23
Mr. Damien Kurek (Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC)
  • Jun/5/23 12:25:38 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, like the previous member, I stand today to address some of what I believe are very serious challenges when it comes to the questions posed related to the Order Paper questions. I would read from the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. This is the September 2021 edition where 39(5)(b) states: If such a question remains unanswered at the expiration of the said period of 45 days, the matter of the failure of the ministry to respond shall be deemed referred to the appropriate standing committee. Within five sitting days of such a referral the Chair of the committee shall convene a meeting of the committee to consider the matter of the failure of the ministry to respond. The question shall be designated as referred to committee on the Order Paper and, notwithstanding Standing Order 39(4), the member may submit one further question for each question so designated. The member who put the question may rise in the House under Questions on the Order Paper and give notice that he or she intends to transfer the question and raise the subject matter thereof on the adjournment of the House, and the order referring the matter to committee is thereby discharged. There is a growing trend when it comes to the responses that the government has brought forward to Order Paper questions that I have seen and with the questions that I have brought forward to this House. I would specifically refer to Question No. 604 put forward by me, which was signed by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence. The information provided in that answer varies differently from information that was both reported in the public and information that I received via members of the Canadian Armed Forces. For context, for the Speaker and for those watching, this has to do with a number of Canadian Armed Forces personnel who were put on leave due to their choice of not—
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Context: House Hansard - 206 - Jun/5/23
The Speaker
  • Jun/5/23 5:02:49 p.m.
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It is my duty, pursuant to Standing Order 38, to inform the House that the questions to be raised tonight at the time of adjournment are as follows: the hon. member for Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon, Housing; and the hon. member for Nunavut, Northern Affairs.
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Context: House Hansard - 206 - Jun/5/23
Hon. Mark Holland (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Lib.)
  • Jun/5/23 5:03:47 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I request that the ordinary hour of daily adjournment of the June 6, June 7 and June 8 sittings be 12 midnight, pursuant to the order made Tuesday, November 15, 2022.
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