Some hon. Members:
No, no.
Subtopic: SPEECH FROM THE THRONE
Sub-subtopic: CONTINUATION OF DEBATE ON ADDRESS IN REPLY
No, no.
Mr. Hnatyshyn:
1 think the minister will want to take the first opportunity to retract the rather unfortunate statement he just made with respect to the allegation that we want to get out of the Commonwealth. 1 realize he is making the point that beef is cheaper. Tonight we understand that bull is free.
The Acting Speaker (Mr. Ethier):
Order, please. This is more a point of debate. I suggest that the minister should be allowed to continue.
Retract.
Mr. Whelan:
Mr. Speaker, the hon. member, in my opinion, did not have a point of order. He only contributed to the beef surplus with a little more bull.
Hear, hear!
You are a bunch of rabble rousers.
Mr. Munro (Esquimalt-Saanich):
There is the rabble. The minister is roused.
Mr. Whelan:
I wish I had been in external affairs. I would know how to use those fine words a little better.
Hear, hear!
October 19, 1976
The Address-Mr. Whelan
Mr. Whelan:
Not like some former civil servants or bureaucrats, people who come to parliament to tell us old parliamentarians how to run the country.
Mr. Munro (Esquimalt-Saanich):
Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. There are two comments which have been made, and I think the minister was responding a little bit too generously perhaps to some other comments which were being made.
Mr. Guay (St. Boniface):
Sit down.
Oh, oh!
The Acting Speaker (Mr. Ethier):
Order, please. I think we are entitled to hear the point of order of the hon. member.
Mr. Munro (Esquimalt-Saanich):
First, the minister did not retract a completely untrue statement which was made.
Prove it.
Mr. Munro (Esquimalt-Saanich):
I think that ought to be done, if only to set the record straight. I think we are all prepared to accept that in the enthusiasm of the moment the minister could have overstated the case.
The Acting Speaker (Mr. Ethier):
I wish to inform the hon. member that that is not a point of order. It is a point of debate, and I suggest that the minister continue his remarks.
Hear, hear!