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"content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I was wondering whether I was going to catch your eye at all. Let me, first of all, say that this debate is actually very good. It is something that should not surprise anybody. We are in a scenario where the House is evolving in a new dispensation. Confronting the challenges like the one we are grappling with right now is a natural consequence of the very fundamental changes that we have made in our legislative structure and even the traditions. Hon. Speaker, I have two quick points but, first of all, let me just address the issue that the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee referred to, with regard to the membership of that Committee. The bigger numbers provided for in the Standing Orders is nothing new. It is really not anything new. Anybody who understands the history of the Budget and Appropriations Committee since this House took on a more prominent role in the Budget making process would know that under the old system, during the last Parliament, all the chairpersons of committees automatically became members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. So, the Budget and Appropriations Committee always had higher numbers than any other committee of this House. I sat in the Budget and Appropriations Committee in the last Parliament not by virtue of being a member of that committee but by virtue of my position as chairperson of"
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