Burlington MP Mike Wallace attempts to clarify NDP position on a piece of legislation.

By Staff

April 22, 2015

BURLINGTON, ON

There is a service that allows media, or anyone else for that matter, to track what a Member of Parliament says in the House of Commons.
With a federal election expected in the fall, the Gazette will, as a public service, provide regular reports on what Mike Wallace, Burlington MP says on the House.

Mike Wallace, Burlington Member of Parliament

Wallace is the chair of the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and chair of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

On Tuesday he said the following:

Mr. Speaker, I have been here all morning. It is now a little after one o’clock. I would like to go through the process. The bill was introduced by the minister. There was second reading debate. Everyone in the House agreed, and it went to committee. There was a discussion at committee and witnesses.

It came back here.

There have been comments about why the Conservatives have not been up to speak to this. The fact of the matter is that the whole House agrees with the bill. What opposition members are arguing about today is the short title. They do not like the short title. One party is carrying the debate from ten o’clock until two, is my understanding. Then on another date, we will hear about not having enough time to debate issues.
There is other legislation we could have introduced that the opposition members may actually disagree with, and we could have a real debate in the House.

Based on the respect I have for the member who just spoke, would it not have been a better use of the time of the House to deal with legislation and actually have a debate on other than the short title?

In the near future we will publish reports on the funds made available to the Member for the running of his offices in Ottawa and Burlington and how they were used.