Speaker Lamoureux
The Commons: What just happened here?
Eleven hours and 53 minutes after the last vote was counted, Megan Leslie stood and attempted a summation.
‘We may have reached the point where we are going too far’
On the afternoon of January 26, 1971, Robert McCleave, the Progressive Conservative MP for Halifax-East Hants, rose on a point of order to complain about Bill C-207, the Government Organization Act. In Mr. McCleave’s opinion, the bill should not be read a second time, but rather be divided as it contained “at least seven distinct proposals or principles.”