Recognition by Chair

<div class="DecisionMain" role="main"> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Main Content" --> <p class="decision-chapter"> Rules of Debate - Order and Decorum / Question-and-comment Period </p> <div> </div> <p class="d-DecisionDate"> <time>May 28, 1986</time> </p> <p class="e-Debates"> Debates <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC3301_09/1298?r=0&amp;s=1">p. 13746</a> </p> <div><h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Background</h2></div> <p class="g-ContextResoEdNotePostscript"> During the question-and-comment period on a Member's speech, the Deputy Speaker recognized a Member of the speaker's own party. Mr. Blaikie (Winnipeg—Birds Hill) rose to object, stating that the intention of the Standing Orders was to give priority for questions and comments to Members of other parties. Mr. Blaikie contended that since Members from other parties were seeking the floor, the Chair should recognize one of them. </p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Issue</h2> <p class="g-ContextResoEdNotePostscript"> During the question-and-comment period, is the Chair obliged to recognize only Members of parties other than that of the person speaking as long as Members of other parties are seeking the floor? </p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Decision</h2> <p class="g-ContextResoEdNotePostscript"> No. Members of the speaker's own party may be recognized. </p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Reasons given by the Deputy Speaker</h2> <p class="g-ContextResoEdNotePostscript"> While preference should begiven to the Members of parties other than that to which the speaker belongs, the Chair does not understand the Standing Orders to mean that questions and comments from Members of the speaker's own party are excluded. </p> </div>