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The Speaker: I do not want to get into a debate on this because I think that what we are trying to deal with here in the House is a matter that should be dealt with in the committee. It is up to the committee to decide if its [Chair] was within parliamentary practices. In any case, it has been the longstanding practice of the House not to intervene until we have a report from the committee. I would prefer that this matter be dealt with in committee. From what I am getting from the interventions so far there may have been an idea that there was to be a limit of time. I am just repeating what I seem to have heard here. If that is the case, perhaps it can be worked out. I do not want to get into a debate but I am prepared to listen to a few more interventions providing that we give pertinent information on this specific point of order. Editor's Note The Speaker then hears other members. I have heard the interventions of four or five members on this point of order. My view is that when we set up a committee of this House, it is set up by the House to carry out the orders of the House. My predecessors have ruled time and time again that unless there is a report before the House, the Chair does not intervene. If this is a misunderstanding of some kind, it should be worked out in the committee with the committee members. I hope it can be worked out. I will leave this point of order where it is. I suggest that whatever points of order are brought up here in terms of extra time or whatever is needed can be brought up in the committee. They should be dealt with there. I will leave this right here, right now. P0903-e 36-1 1998-03-26

Time limits on statements by witnesses: committee decision

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