The DAP welcomes the establishment of a Parliamentary Select Committee on the Dangerous Drugs (Special Preventive Measures) Bill 1984, for we hope that it marks the beginning of a new government attitude which accepts the principle that legislation is not the sole prerogative of the government of the day, but must involve the widest public participation in the deliberation and formulation stage even before they are debated in Parliament.
We hope that the Government would not set up select Committees merely for X-films, divorce laws, and now drug legislation, but also on Bills with wide-ranging constitutional, economic, human rights and political implications, like constitutional amendments, the recent Civil Law Amendment Bill, even the Companies Amendment Bill, so that Parliament will not merely operate as a rubber stamp of the Executive, but participates actively in law-making. Continue reading Pusat Serenti Tampin – Hell on Earth