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‘We may have reached the point where we are going too far’

On the afternoon of January 26, 1971, Robert McCleave, the Progressive Conservative MP for Halifax-East Hants, rose on a point of order to complain about Bill C-207, the Government Organization Act. In Mr. McCleave’s opinion, the bill should not be read a second time, but rather be divided as it contained “at least seven distinct proposals or principles.”

The Commons: The ghosts of statesmen past

Joe Clark gets his portrait, Maxime Bernier is merely hanged