Statement
May 9, 1984
Supplementary questions, guidelines
Hon. Lloyd Francis
Speaker of the House
Ruling Text
Beauchesne's Fifth Edition, Citation 371, reads in part, "The extent to which supplementary questions may be asked is in the discretion of the Speaker." The Chair is attempting in Question Period to discourage the growing practice of asking different questions of different Ministers, questions which are additional, not supplementary. Supplementary questions arise out of the question asked. "As a general rule, it does not give the Hon. Member asking the question licence to go hunting and to ask questions of any Minister who happens to be in the House.".
Sources cited Beauchesne, 5th ed., p. 134, c. 371.
References Debates, May 9, 1984, p. 3548.
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Holding
"Supplementary questions must be directly related to the original question and cannot be used to ask new questions of different Ministers."
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The Speaker clarifies that supplementary questions during Question Period must be genuinely supplementary and not new questions directed at different ministers.
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- Question Period
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