Modeling Journey

The Speaker ruled that the House of Commons has an absolute right to demand the production of all information in the possession of a government to be made available to the House. However, the Speaker then suggested that the parties in the House discuss some means to resolve the conflict:

In view of the grave circumstances of the current impasse, the Chair believes that the House ought to make one further effort to arrive at an interest-based solution to this thorny question... I will allow House Leaders, Ministers and party critics time to suggest some way of resolving the impasse for it seems to me we would fail the institution if no resolution can be found.  However, if, in two weeks’ time, the matter is still not resolved, the Chair will return to make a statement on the motion that will be allowed in the circumstances.

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