Evidence of meeting #3 for Finance in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was inflation.
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10:20 a.m.
Conservative
10:20 a.m.
Liberal
Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
I will pull my motion. I didn't think we were going to debate this at length and have more of a disagreement than an agreement, so I wish to pull my motion.
10:20 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Okay.
We need unanimous consent to withdraw the motion. This should not be an item for deep division within the committee. I don't know if members talk to other members before the meeting, but I would encourage you to have some discussions outside of the committee. Frankly, I don't think the chair should be determining the speaking order. If it's a five-five vote, that's what I will be doing, and that's not a position that the chair wants to be in. The committee should determine that. I would just encourage you to do what we did in the last committee I was in, which is to have off-line discussions, talk to your colleagues outside the committee, and see if you can come to a consensus. It's best to get a consensus on this.
Monsieur Laforest.
10:25 a.m.
Bloc
Jean-Yves Laforest Bloc Saint-Maurice—Champlain, QC
You said that unanimous consent was required to withdraw the motion, Mr. Chair. At Mr. Menzies' request, I withdrew my motion, and you did not ask for unanimous consent. So I do not understand why you are asking for it now.
10:25 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
I said d'accord avec, and all the committee indicated to me verbally and non-verbally that they agreed that your motion should be withdrawn. I understood that you wanted it withdrawn and nobody objected to that. So I took that as unanimous consent.
10:25 a.m.
Bloc
Jean-Yves Laforest Bloc Saint-Maurice—Champlain, QC
I see. If you had asked for it, that is fine. I did not hear that.
10:25 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Okay.
Mr. Pacetti is withdrawing his motion. Is there unanimous consent to do so?
(Motion withdrawn)
10:25 a.m.
Conservative
Ted Menzies Conservative Macleod, AB
Mr. Chair, further to that--and I recognize that we may have a bit of a problem here--do we actually need to have that repeated? Do we have to have it clarified? If there is unanimous consent to a motion, do we need to see it in writing? Are we all on the same page here?
10:25 a.m.
Conservative
Ted Menzies Conservative Macleod, AB
No, what I'm saying is that going further in this committee, to make sure that we don't have misunderstandings, is there unanimous agreement? I don't want to suggest that we need to have recorded votes on all of this. It's to protect you, Mr. Chair. Do we need to make sure we have agreement on a motion that was put forward, or a position that was taken by this committee?
10:25 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Unanimous consent is required to withdraw the motion. Mr. Pacetti asked that the motion be withdrawn. Unanimous consent was granted, so the motion is withdrawn.
10:25 a.m.
Conservative
February 10th, 2009 / 10:25 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
So we will revert to the normal witness.
I would like to remind members that we expect to get Bill C-10 some time in the near future. I know that Mr. McCallum and Mr. Menzies have submitted some witness names, but if anyone has any for Bill C-10, please get them in to the clerk as soon as possible.
Thank you.
The meeting is adjourned.