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EDITORIAL – Point of order on all those points of order in council meetings

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ANOTHER COUNCIL MEETING today (Aug. 27, 2024) broke down into chaos. If the mayor, councillors and staff would bone up on some basic procedural rules, and stick to them, it could be avoided. Or, at least, reduced. First of all, consider all those points of order. Councillors somehow believe that when they raise a point of order, it means they have a right to get their way. So they raise points of order at the slightest whim on things that aren’t legitimate points of order at all. A point of order is one of the tools participants in a meeting have to maintain decorum. They can raise a point of order if they believe the rules of procedure have been inadvertently broken or incorrectly applied. It’s up to the chair of the meeting, the mayor, to rule on whether or not the point of order is justified. “Although Members frequently rise claiming a point of order, genuine points of order rarely occur,” according to House of Commons Procedure and Practice. In most assemblies, Robert’s Rules of Order are used to maintain proper procedures, although in Canada some groups use a similar guideline called Bourinot’s Rules [...]

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EDITORIAL – Point of order on all those points of order in council meetings

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