Speaker shoots down emergency salmon debate

Omar El Akad and Anna Mehler Paperny
The Globe and Mail
June 10, 2008

OTTAWA, VANCOUVER -- A request for an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the dwindling number of Pacific salmon was shot down yesterday, hindering the federal New Democratic Party's efforts to bring the issue to Ottawa's attention.

Catherine Bell, NDP MP for Vancouver Island North, asked the Speaker of the House yesterday to allow an emergency debate on the salmon stocks, saying she had spoken to stakeholders and "they are all saying the same thing: Help."

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