Reference to the Senate

<div class="DecisionMain" role="main"> <p class="decision-chapter">Rules of Debate / Miscellaneous</p> <p class="d-DecisionDate"> <time>May 24, 1966</time> </p> <p class="e-Debates">Debates <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC2701_05/1041?r=0&amp;s=1">p. 5453</a></p> <div> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Background</h2> </div> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">During debate on a motion by Mr. Macaluso (Hamilton West) for second reading of Bill S-11, an Act to incorporate the Income Life Insurance Company of Canada, Members alluded to debates in the other Chamber. The Deputy Speaker intervened to remind them of the prohibition against referring to debate in the Senate.</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Issue</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Can Members of the House refer to debate in the Senate?</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Decision</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">No. Members should not allude to any Senate debate. [The Chair allowed, pending an official ruling, the admissibility of references to "the official printed records" of the Senate; that is, the Senate Journals.]</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Reasons given by the Deputy Speaker</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">According to one authority, "it has been sanctioned by usage both in England and in Canada that a Member while speaking must not ... refer to any debate in the Senate".</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">Sources cited</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Beauchesne, 4th ed., p. 127, c. 149(b).</p> <h2 class="f-ContextResoEdNotePostscriptTitle">References</h2> <p class="g-contextResoEdNotePostscript">Debates, May 24, 1966, <a href="https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC2701_05/1039">pp, 5451-3</a>.</p> </div>