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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
It can be said that in the Liberal back bench there are 20 members, or 16.4 per cent of the total doing 36.8 per cent of the committee work. Similarly, 27.1 per cent of the members are doing 52.8 per cent of the committee work. One of the major complaints of government members is the extremely heavy work load which has been aggravated by the recent changes in the rules and procedures of the House. Indeed, if one is listening to the complaints of a member who is in this 27.1 per cent group, his complaints are justified and real. One must conclude that the remaining 53.2 per cent who are responsible for only 25.4 per cent of the committee work must be the victims of work from another source.
1 Figures for the numbers of substitutions of members in the committees as well as figures for travelling committees were obtained from the Committees Branch of the House of Commons.
2 Judy Dibben, “The Committee System of the House of Commons,” unpublished research paper prepared for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism. All statistics referring to committee attendance in the 26th Parliament were obtained from this paper.
3 A document of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, (Ottawa, 1970), 151.
4 Ibid., 153, 71, 80.