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F 6 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tussdey, Mey 31, 1966 BITTERNESS OF PIPELINE... Continued end of his speech introducing From Page 4 down the centre aisle to the the preliminary resolution, he said: 'It is obvious that some members prefer to obstruct thie matian rather than de- bate it."' In the next breath he gave notice of closure--before a single Opposition MP had spoken in the debate. Under the closure rule, a cabinet minister gives notice of closure one day and moves the motion the next. When ap- proved, it cuts speeches to 20 minutes and forces a vote by 1 a.m. of the following morn- ing. In the 16-day pipeline de- bate there were an amazing 70 votes, an unprecedented 24 of them on appeals against rulings 'by the chair--either Mr. Beaudoin or one of his deputies, by contrast, there previ- ously had been only two ap- als since 1953 against rul- ings by Mr. Beaudoin, an ur- bane Montrea! lawyer so steeped in°parliamentary lore that he had just about com- pleted rewriting the Com- mons' rules of order when the pipeline trouble fell upon him, And there was only one from 1957 to 1962--a period that in- cluded some turmoil -- when the Speaker's chair was occu- pied by Conservative Roland Michener. Such appeals have | been abolished under current | provisional rules. OPPOSITION REBELS Eighteen of the votes, in- cluding five Opposition ap- | were | crammed into the sitting of | June 1--Black Friday--a day | peals against rulings, that saw a shouting and fist- shaking Opposition against the authority of the chair, No Canadian Speaker ever faced so many challenges to his judgment, so many at- tacks on his conduct, so much | elamorous disorder. The Opposition, fighting the | pipeline bill mainly on pro- cedural grounds, challenged the legality under House rules of nearly every govenment | move. This brotight numerous clashes with the chair, which regularly upheld the govern- ment; and the Conservative. | CCF combination contended | Mr. Beaudoin and his depu- | ties, pressured hy the govern- ment, manipulated the' rules to its advantage. | They were particularly in- eensed over the chair's per-| sistent overruling of their | claims that they could talk on points of order and privilege. On some points the chair re- fused to hear any debate, al- though points of .order and privilege usually take preced- ence over all other business, Prime Minister Louis St. | Laurent said no one was de- nied the opportunity to speak when he had the right to do #0. The late Solon Low, Social Credit leader, accused the Conservatives of scraping the bottom of the barrel for an election issue. BATTLE OWN RULE There was irony {n the 1956 position of the parties. The Conservatives were battling | against a rule devised by | thelr own party to end the bit- ter naval debate of 1913. The late Arthur Meighen was its author But in the 1956 debate the Conservatives didn't hesitate to taunt the govenment with the bitter words of a former | Liberal prime minister who had described closure as 'holding a terror over our heads," When Sir Wilfrid Was prime minister in and a government bill been blocked for six months, by a tenacious Conservative Opposition he preferred to call an election--which he lost rather than impose closure This example from their past did not deter the Liberals in 1956 Closure ended the resolution stage. After hurdling more procedural roadblocks, the government succeeded in in troducing the bill itself in a aitting that ended at 4:41 a.m on May 16. Closure cut off de- bate on second reading (ap- proval in principle) on May 23. Then the Liberals em- ployed a form of closure within. closure Its effect was to permit Opposition debate on only one of the bill's seven clauses while the legislation was be fore the committee of the whole House for detailed study In succession, Mr. Howe moved postponement of fur- ther consideration of the first three clauses. There was ex- tended debate on clause 4, Then Prime Minister St. Laur- ent invoked closure, calling for immediate vote on all clauses The Opposition argued that the closure motion was out of order. They noted that the first three clauses had not been considered and that the last three had not even been called Deputy Speaker. W. A Laurier Rob- inson, avho was in the chair, | had quoted a British journal on parliamentary pro as saving "the calling a clause by the chairman brings it under the consideration of the committee," FLEMING EJECTED It was at this juncture, on May 25, that Donald Fleming, Conservative MP for Toronto of Eglinton, was expelled for the | remainder of the. day for de fying Mr. Robinson's order to be seated. As Mr. Fleming strode standing app of Conserv- ative and CCF members, a) a colleague, Ellen Fairclough | of Hamilton West, draped a | big Ked ensign over me empty desk, On June 1, the Commons | day started at 11 a.m. and | ended at 1:47 a.m, the follow- ing morning, Karl Rowe, now Ontario's lieutenant-governor and then rebellion | | Buildings after 1911 | had | Conservative MP 'or Dufferin- mentary freedom in Canada." It is still remembered as Black Friday. Colin Cameron, CCF member for Nanaimo, a motion de- ters published in an Ottawa Parliament, ing a matter 'of privilege, had on Prime Minister St ent's closure motion and ernment's schedule for pipeline debate, On Black Friday, the | Speaker said he had made a mistake when he allowed the motion of censure to be intro- | duced, He said he should have | first asked for a vote on a ruling that the prime minis- ter's closure motion was in order, REFUSE TO VOTE The Speaker asked the House to support him in his decision to reverse his previ- ous ruling but the Conserva- tives and CCF took the un- | precedented step of refusing to vote, maintaing there was no question properly before the House, The Speaker's second- thought decision to rule Mr, Cameron's motion out of order der was supported 142 to 0 In the ensuing furore, Con- servative leader George Drew | gave notice of motion of cen- sure against the Speaker, the first and only one in Canadian history, Later, when Davie Fulton, Conservative MP for Kam- loops, sought to gain the floor to move adjournment but was | ignored by the Speaker, here was a pild scene, Angered Consertvaive and CCF members, led by Mr. Drew and Mr. Coldwell, stormed into the centre aisle between the government and Opposition benches, shaking their fists at the Speaker and shouting such epithets as "Puppet" and 'Dictator,' The commitee stage ended --to shouts of 'Heil Hitler' from the Opposition side and "Go home" from a spectator in the packed public galleries --with presentation of the third closure motion. As he left the Parliament a.m. June 2, Mr. Howe was greeted by some 100 booing and cheering spectators, The bill was passed by a vote of 148 to 52 in the early- morning hours of Wednesday, June 6, after a fourth closure motion on third reading. But the trials of Speaker Beaudoin were not _over Mr. Drew pressed on with his censure motion accusing Mr, Beaudoin of "subordinat- ing the rights of the House to the will of the government." The Speaker's. position eventually became so intoler able that, after the censure motion was defeated, he sub mitted his resignation in a statement in which his: ruulings had ever been ino- tivated by party considera- tions Later he decided to stay on, at Mr, St. Laurent's' urging, and his offer came before the House for disposition, But th. pipeline uproar sawed off the uptrend of his career, He won re-elec- tion in 1957 but dropped ost of politics before the 1958 election. His contemplaed re- ision of the rules cf pro- cedure never was published Three and a hali months after passage of the pipeline bill, Mr, Drew, in poor health, announced his retirement as Conservative leade more than six months after the debate John Diefenbaker succeeded him Mr. Drew fired a parting shot, erying "the fight for freedom of Parliament has just started." His successor riade that a main theme of the campaign that Conservatives to office than a. year later Mr. Diefenbaker promised to have the closure rule abol- ished, but there always seemed to be more pressing business, On March 26, 1962, the rule was saved enough, by the intervention of an MP who had fought its im- position in 1956 Mr. Diefenbaker ing that abolition of the rule be considered by a Commons commit when W. Pickersgill suggested there might he mous agree- ment to having his motion re- less tee | worded to have the effect of wiping it out immediately Rut Erhart Regier NDP member for Burnaby-Coquit- lam, cautioned that misuse of closure in 1954 was no reason for destroying it, There the | | matter died. Closure has been | used only once since. The Lib erals brought it out on Dee 15. 1964. to end the stretched out debate on a new Canadian | fag knocked one day off the gov- | the | to resign never | brought the strangely Simcoe, wound up the debate | for the Opposition saying the | day "will long be a black Fri- | day in the history of parlia- | The previous night, Speaker | Beaudoin had received from | claring that statements in let- newspaper were derogatory to The censure motion, involv. | the effect of preventing a vote) Laur- CANADIAN - BORN AR- NOLD SMITH (centre left), first permanent secretary- general of the British Com- monwealth and guest spea- NDP Members Fail In Amendment Bids OTTAWA (CP) The New, Democrats struck out on three wings in the Commons Monday They proposed three amend- ments to legislation and none were accepted All were aimed at adjusting a 44-clause government bill to re organize several federal depart ments, An amendment by Andrew Brewin (NCP--Toronto Green- wood) sought to keep the RCMP under the justice department in- ransferring it to the solicitor-general, Despite some Conservative support, the NDP lost that one 66 to 42, Social Credit sided with the Liberal government. The NDP came back with an old platform plank when Grace Macinnis (Vancouver Kings: way) suggested changing the name of the new-look registrar- general's department to the con sumer affairs department Guy Favreau, president of the privy council, said the Mac- Innis proposal would not fit the} broad scope of the new depart-| ment, which would handle a wide range of business-oriented| activities, These would in- {elude bankruptcy administra- tion, trademark registration, }anti-combines investigation and patents, URGE NEW POWERS The amendment went down 28 to 8 Stanley Knowles (NDP-- Winnipeg North Centre) then proposed another amendment to give the registrar-general power to review prices and 'matters of concern" to consumers, The Knowles amendment was ruled out of order first by Dep- uty Speaker Herman M, Batten and then by Speaker Lucien La- - LAWN-BOY offers a TWO-YEAR WARRANTY plus | 18 convenient advantages, stead of he denied | | Including: @ Finger-tip start | © Clog-proof grasscatche, @ The industry's largest muffler ker Monday at the inaugur- al dinner of Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting in Ottawa, chats with (eft to right) Sen, John J, moureux when Mr, Knowles ap- pealed the ruling, In between the NDP con sumer talk, Erik Nielsen (PC Yukon) accused the government of "exceeding its powers' by sending him two letters inviting him to turn over information about fraudulent bankruptcie He said the letters, dated May 6 and May ll, placed undue pressure on him to divulge in formation that had been give to him in confidence as an MP. The letters were from Justice Minister Cardin. He hinted that some of the people who give him informa. tion fear for their lives Amplifying outside the House, Mr, Nielsen said four cases re lating to fraudulent Quebec bankruptcies had been brought to his attention in which inform- Lawrence ~~ §&t, George), chairman of the CPA's Ca- nadian branch (CP Wirephoto) Connolly, chairman of the CPA general council; Exter- nal Affairs Martin, and John N. Turner, (PC--Montreal St in the government, duties would increase lem of co-ordination The House gave unanimous approval to the addition of im migration to the new manpower department Richard A, Bell (PC--Carle ton), a former immigration minister, attacked the marriage of labor and immigration in manpower and said the result will be "a department warring within itself," By the end of Monday's sitting the House had approved new departments named forestry and rural development, Indian affairs and northern develop ment and registrar-general There were just a few clauses to go on the department of en ergy, mines and resources and Parliament will get back to that today, A new department, presi dent of the treasury board, and other changes also remain for Commons scrutiny, previous Conservative said a division of the prob ants feared death if information was made public, A "large pro- portion' of his informants feared some kind of ylolent re- taliation HAS 30-50 NAMES Mr. Nielsen said in the House he had "30 to 50 company names which should be invest gated in connection with bank ruptcies. He could not: disclose them because his obligation was to keep the information channel open, Davie Fulton (PC loops) also suggested leaving the RCMP under justice, He thought that rather than break up justice responsibilities and| ade , place them in other depart: | GAS FINDS A MARKET ments, the justice minister| United States customers should have three deputies to} bought 404,000,000,000 cubic feet help him earry the load lof natural gas from Canada in Mr, Fulton, justice minister! 1965, Kam Smith Warns Of! GLANCE AROUND THE GLOBE Isolation Peril _ OTTAWA (CP)--The stop-the- world-I-want-to-get-off school is _ Houston Police Catch growing, Commonwealth Becre-| Cheaters In Trainees tary-General Arnold Smith said Monday night. Such an attitude was danger- ous when more interdependence) WEP NECETU, FePC CHAE 4] to the Commonwealth include: inadequacy of vision and inte lectual energy, a tendency to limit sympathy, less tolerance and Jess interest in co-operation with others, All those pould result in a re- treat into isolationism. Mr, Smith, a Canadian, was addressing a dinner of Common- wealth diplomats and Canadian' MPs, The Commonwealth par- liamentary conference will he held here in September, The gap between the rich, white nations and the poor, non white nations could end in irra tional.outbreaks of violence, he said, If inadequately handled, the Rhodesian situation could lead ;to the break-up of the Common wealth as a multiracial group | Czech Delegation Visits Atom Plants OTTAWA (CP) ~-- A delega tion of Czechoslovakia research scientists arrived Monday for a week long visit to Canadian scientific centres including the Atomie energy plant at Chalk River, Ont Headed by two deputy chair- men of the state commission on science and technology, J, Nej man and M, Smock, the 12-man delegation will visit Montreal Toronto and Niagara Falls after talks here with government and National Research Council offi cials HOUSTON (AP)--Two appli-|creased his height by padding cants for Houston's police train-| his socks, ing class have been caught dioatine Mavar Tawa Waichl TALKS FRIENDLY aid that ene applicant "tied 15]. BELAKADE (heuters)---rres- ounds of lead sinkers to his) dent Josip Tito and Hungarian legs" in an attempt to meet|Communist Party Leader Janos the minimum weight require-| Sadar had friendly talks Mon- ment, The other applicant in-|44y night in a small resort im e a ' ' | northwest 'reported here Yugoslavia, it was Capital Calle Growth Spur | VANCOUVER (CP) The head of an American subsidiary in Canada said Monday some Canadians are too preoccupied with the danger of U.S. control of Canadian industry, "It is very possible that, in recent years, many new plants have not come to Canada he- cause there may appear to be a low regard in some quarters for foreign capital and business en terprise," said C, C, Brannan, president of International Har- vester Co. of Canada, He told the Board of Trade that newspapers are partly re- sponsible for confusing issues and facts about foreign subsidi- aries The Hamilton businessman said the flow of foreign capital has made it possible for Cana- dians to have full employment, rapid industrial growth and a high standard of living. 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