John Allen Fraser

"Question Period is not part of the legislative process,and has nothing to do with it. It is a means of monitoring the Executive that the Government cannot evade."

"The House Of Commons has never been a tea-party. It consists of strong-minded, often very idealistic people, who are trying to accomplish something for our country. We are inheritors of an adversarial…"

"The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, s…"

"The institutions which our ancestors established to to sustain and defend democracy in this country are still with us today, more than two hundred years later."

"Debates must take place in an atmosphere of courtesy."

"The purpose of privilege is not to place parliamentarians above the law, but rather to allow them to carry out their duties independently and effectively, in the national interest."

"But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation."

"In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal."