Mr. J. E. Matthews (Brandon):

Because I will not have an opportunity again at this session, I want to refer to a matter that I think will be of interest to most hon. members. As some of you are aware, the Brandon Wheat Kings hockey team, junior champions of western Canada, are now playing a seven-game series with the Royals of Montreal, junior champions of eastern Canada. The result of these games will decide the Canadian junior championship. Perhaps I should explain to some of the older men who have quit the game that we now consider a player eligible for junior rank who has not passed the age of twenty at the beginning of November of the particular hockey season. That does not mean that a junior team is composed of a bunch of small boys. On the contrary, I am told that the average weight of the Wheat Kings is 175 pounds.

This is the record of their performance to date. This season they have played fifty-seven games, of which they have lost only ten. They have scored 294 goals, and have had only 155 scored against them. I doubt if in the annals of Canadian hockey there is a more impressive performance. I believe it is a record that might very well find a place on the pages of Hansard. I wish to extend congratulations to every player on the team, to the executive, and to their efficient coach, Bill Mackenzie.

Mr. Howard C. Green (Vancouver South):

Mr. Speaker, I rise on a question of privilege. Late yesterday afternoon I received a petition, for presentation to the house, from the British Columbia Old Age Pensioners Organization Inc., signed by some 1,500 persons, many of whom signed as officers of responsible organized bodies of various kinds. I believe this petition to be in proper form for presentation, and I am prepared to present it, but in view of the expected dissolution of parliament later today I am drawing to your attention, Mr. Speaker, and to the attention

of the house, the fact that it sets out the great difficulties of these Canadians in receipt of old age pensions, and suggests that the minimum basic pension should be $50 per month at age sixty-five without a means test.

The prayer of the petition is only three lines long, and reads as follows:

Wherefore your petitioners humbly pray that your honourable house may be pleased to give its fullest consideration at the present session to the grievous sufferings of these pioneer citizens.

Mr. Martin:

Mr. Speaker-

Mr. Knowles:

Just a minute; it is my question of privilege.

Mr. Martin:

I rise on a point of order.

Mr. Knowles:

I have the floor on a question of privilege.

Mr. Martin:

I rise on a point of order.

Mr. Knowles:

Mr. Speaker-

Mr. Martin:

I rise on a point of order.

Mr. Speaker:

Order.

Mr. Knowles:

There is a rule that there cannot be a question of privilege on a question of privilege.

Mr. Speaker:

I understand that the minister is rising on a point of order.

Privilege-Mr. Pouliot

Mr. Marlin:

I rise on a point of order. Surely on his question of privilege the hon. member is now engaging in argument as to the merits of a particular point in debate.

Mr. Knowles:

Not at all.

Mr. Martin:

This is surely not a question of privilege.