Private Members' Bills don't mean much for debate

My column this week on Loonie Politics looks at some of the arguments being made in the debate on assisted dying, and the claims constantly made that Parliament has been seized with this issue since the Sue Rodriguez decision, and the number of private members' bills placed on the Order Paper in those intervening years as the justification. I show how that simply isn't the case because of the rules of Parliament, and what needs to happen for there to be a real debate.