Evidence of meeting #1 for Agriculture and Agri-Food in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was motions.
A recording is available from Parliament.
3:45 p.m.
Conservative
Lianne Rood Conservative Lambton—Kent—Middlesex, ON
I'm okay with the 10-minute rounds. I think my colleague was referring to the COVI committee when we had a ton of witnesses we had to get through in a very short time. They were stacked. We did not have sufficient time to hear from them. I think that, with the studies going forward, 10 minutes is a good amount of time. We have a lot of information to get through in this committee from our stakeholders. I don't believe that five minutes is enough time.
I would like to stay with that 10 minutes.
3:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan
We have a motion and an amendment on the table. If there are no more interventions, we will vote on the amendment.
Mr. MacGregor.
3:45 p.m.
NDP
Alistair MacGregor NDP Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, BC
I appreciate Ms. Rood's comments about the five minutes. I'm willing to meet her in the middle. We could go to seven and a half. I'm really interested in making sure as many MPs as possible get to that second round.
3:45 p.m.
Conservative
Lianne Rood Conservative Lambton—Kent—Middlesex, ON
Yes, I'm fine with that, Alistair. That's a good compromise.
3:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan
Any other comments on the amendment?
If not, we shall vote on the amendment.
3:45 p.m.
Conservative
Lianne Rood Conservative Lambton—Kent—Middlesex, ON
Mr. Chair, could you clarify the speaking order that was suggested?
3:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan
Mr. MacGregor, would you like to clarify exactly what you're proposing?
3:45 p.m.
NDP
Alistair MacGregor NDP Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, BC
Yes, and this is also for the clerk's benefit as well. In the first sentence, it would read, “That witnesses be given seven and a half minutes for their opening statements and that whenever possible, witnesses provide the committee with their opening statements 72 hours in advance.” That concludes the substantive amendment.
Going down to the section dealing with the second and subsequent rounds, the new order, as proposed by myself, would now read, “Conservative Party, five minutes; Liberal Party, five minutes; Bloc Québécois, two and a half minutes; New Democratic Party, two and a half minutes; Conservative Party, five minutes; Liberal Party, five minutes.”
3:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan
You've all heard the amendment. We're going to have to have two votes, one by one.
The first amendment was to add the word “recognized”, so that it reads “recognized party”.
Madam Clerk, do we need to vote on each individually, or can we get a consensus?
3:45 p.m.
The Clerk
If the desire is to pass all of the amendments, then you could pass them all in one shot. Otherwise, each amendment would need to be made separately, and voted on separately.
I'll leave it to your discretion.
3:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan
Are we all in favour to pass everything in one vote, the total amendments that were proposed?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
3:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan
Good. Those in favour of the amendments, raise your hand.
(Amendments agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
3:50 p.m.
Bloc
Yves Perron Bloc Berthier—Maskinongé, QC
Mr. Chair, could you clarify something?
You say “raise your hand”, but is that on the screen?
3:50 p.m.
The Clerk
Mr. Chair, the amendment is adopted. If it is the desire to pass all the routine motions as one, indeed the motion as amended.
3:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan
We now need to vote on the motion as amended.
(Motion as amended agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Before I move to Mr. Drouin, I want to welcome the whole committee. I'm really looking forward to helping our ag sector, and good co-operation from all. Welcome to the new members. I'm really excited to move on to some of the things we want to do in agriculture.
Mr. Drouin.
3:50 p.m.
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
Mr. Chair, first, I want to congratulate Ms. Rood as vice-chair. I know she's not new to this committee, so it's great to have her here as well.
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Perron as well.
I'm trying to seek the committee's willingness. When we last ended the committee, we were speaking about BRMs. Through luck, I would say, Saskatchewan is now in an election and this actually gives us an opportunity to establish and finish the business risk management report.
I'm trying to get a sense of whether the committee would be willing to get the draft report back to committee, so we can finish as soon as possible.
I'm not moving anything now. I'm just trying to see whether the committee would be in agreement to do that over the next few weeks while we are back. Perhaps, at a later date, and depending on what we decide after that, we could discuss other matters and perhaps even the subcommittee could decide on what it wants to do later on.
3:50 p.m.
Bloc
Yves Perron Bloc Berthier—Maskinongé, QC
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Actually, that is sort of tied into my question. I was wondering if we could introduce motions today. I believe the clerk said earlier that we could not. Of course, I would agree with Mr. Drouin.
If we can introduce motions, I have some too.
3:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan
Mr. Perron, I believe that it was not possible to do so until the chair and vice-chairs were elected.
Now we can receive motions.
Madam Clerk, is that right?
3:50 p.m.
The Clerk
Yes, sir, that is correct.