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This reference book is primarily a procedural work which examines the many forms, customs, and practices which have been developed and established for the House of Commons since Confederation in 1867. It provides a distinctive Canadian perspective in describing procedure in the House up to the end of the first session of the 36th Parliament in Sept. 1999. The material is presented with full commentary on the historical circumstances which have shaped the current approach to parliamentary business. Key Speaker's rulings and statements are also documented and the considerable body of practice, interpretation, and precedents unique to the Canadian House of Commons is amply illustrated. Chapters of the book cover the following: parliamentary institutions; parliaments and ministries; privileges and immunities; the House and its Members; parliamentary procedure; the physical & administrative setting; the Speaker & other presiding officers; the parliamentary cycle; sittings of the House; the daily program; oral & written questions; the process of debate; rules of order & decorum; the curtailment of debate; special debates; the legislative process; delegated legislation; financial procedures; committees of the whole House; committees; private Members' business; public petitions; private bills practice; and the parliamentary record. Includes index.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...If the committee cannot go through the whole bill at Report of proone sitting in the Lords, the chairman leaves the chair, STCSS" and moves that the house be put into committee on a future day; and in the Commons, the committee instruct the chairman to report progress, and ask leave to sit again. When the bill has been fully considered, the chairman Report of tho puts a question, " That I do report this bill with the amendments to the house;" which being agreed to, the sitting of the committee is concluded, and Mr. Speaker resumes his chair; upon which the chairman approaches the steps of the speaker's chair, and reports from the committee that "they had gone through the bill, and had made amendments," or " several amendments thereunto." If no amendments have been made, he reports " that they had gone through the bill, and directed him to report the same, without amendment." In the Lords the bill is at once reported if there be no amendments; but there is a standing order, 28th June 1715, which declares " that no report be received from any committee of the whole house, the same day such committee goes through the bill, when any amendments are made to such bill."1 By standing order of the Commons, 25th June 1852, Proceedings on " At the close of the proceedings of a committee of the whole house on a hill, the chairman shall report the hill forthwith to the house, and when amendments shall have heen made thereto, the same shall be received without debate, and a time appointed for taking the same into consideration." When the report has been received, if no amendments have been made, the bill is usually ordered to be read a third time on a future day. If amendments have been...

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