Special Debates / Emergency Debates

Leave granted: emergency debate requested by three members of Parliament

Debates, p. 23925

Context

On November 26, 2018, Erin O’Toole (Durham), Scott Duvall (Hamilton Mountain) and Bryan May (Cambridge) successively rose in the House to request that an emergency debate be held, pursuant to Standing Order 52, on the closure of the General Motors Plant in Oshawa, Ontario.[1]

Resolution

The Speaker ruled immediately and granted leave for the emergency debate, to be held later that day.

Decision of the Chair

The Speaker: I thank the hon. members for Durham, Hamilton Mountain and Cambridge for their interventions in relation to this request, which I am prepared to grant, for an emergency debate to take place this evening.

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[1] Debates, November 26, 2018, pp. 23923–5.