Point of Order
February 19, 2011
Tabling of documents by a Minister: practices
Hon. Andrew Scheer
Speaker of the House
Ruling Text
The Acting Speaker:
I thank hon.
Members and the Chief Government Whip for their interventions on this question.
Members will know that Ministers of the Crown may interrupt on a point of order to table documents at any given time. They have that privilege. I saw this as what the Chief Government Whip was doing. He used a few moments to explain the context of the tabling, and this is quite commonplace when Ministers give the context for posing the documents to the House.
We are really at a point where all Members have been heard on this question. I do not see the practice in this case being out of order..
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Debates, February 19, 2015, pp. 11440–1.
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Holding
"The practice of a Minister interrupting on a point of order to table documents and provide brief context is not out of order."
AI Summary
The Speaker ruled that a Minister is permitted to interrupt proceedings on a point of order to table documents and provide brief context.
AI Analysis
- Outcome
- Denied
- Tone
- Neutral
- Procedural Stage
- Not specified
- Significance
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High