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    "content": "ordinarily and in keeping with the requirements of Standing Order Nos.19A (1)(4) and 20 (A)(5), following receipt of the names and attendant accompanying documentation, as your Speaker, I am supposed to convey the names of the leadership of the Majority Party, the Minority Party and the Whips of any parliamentary party in the House to the assembled House. If the House is not sitting, the Standing Orders require me to notify Members in the usual manner of Speaker’s Notifications to all Members. It is this action that subsequently sets in motion the next steps. In this case, the Clerk would write to the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party, copying the respective whips, asking for the names of the nine Members nominated to sit in the House Business Committee under Standing Order No.171 (1)(f). Thereafter, the Clerk would publish the names in the Order Paper for approval by the House at its first Sitting each Session, which would have been today. Faced with these conflicting correspondences, you will agree with me that it is impossible for me and the Clerk to discharge those requirements of the Standing Orders at this moment. You will also agree with me that from the foregoing, three pertinent questions arise at this moment. These are: 1. Who is the bona fide Leader of the Majority Party and who is the bona fide Leader of the Minority Party in this House? 2. In absence of a House Business Committee, what business is to be transacted by this House for the next few days before the question of the leadership of the Majority and Minority parties is determined? 3. Before the question of the leadership of the Majority and the Minority parties is determined, who is to move the business in the House whose moving is ordinarily reserved for the party leaders? With respect to the first question"
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