Evidence of meeting #94 for Finance in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site.) The winning word was chair.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Thank you, Ms. Nash.
I have Mr. Lake on the list.
Mr. Lake, you have two minutes maximum.
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Conservative
Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB
Mr. Chair, since I am probably going to be the last person speaking to this for a while—I know we'll get into some votes—I will start by commending you for the incredible work you're doing as chair here.
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Some hon. members
Hear, hear!
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Conservative
Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB
I'm proud to be your neighbour in terms of ridings and proud to be your colleague. This is the first time I have served on a committee with you as chair, and let me say that you've lived up to the legend that is James Rajotte as a chair.
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Some hon. members
Hear, hear!
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Conservative
Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB
Mr. Chair, I'm astonished to hear the NDP even pretend—pretend—to stand up for business. It's funny, because I think back to the debates over EI that we had, the 45-day work year, where they would propose that someone should work for 45 days and then be able to collect EI for the rest of the year. I think about the last campaign when they ran on a platform based on $21 billion in carbon taxes. Page 4 in their costing document shows very clearly, in black and white, a whole laundry list of promises that would be paid for by a $21-billion increase in taxes. Not only that, but of course they ran on an increase in taxes on job creators, the very businesses they're talking about.
Mr. Chair, I see that my time is up.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Thank you.
Colleagues, as you all know, I will now move to votes. There's no debate from now on in.
I will start with NDP-4.
Again, if people want a recorded vote, they have to indicate they want a recorded vote.
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Liberal
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Yes.
Just before, if we could, Mr. Chair, on a point of order, because we're getting into the beginning of what could potentially be a lengthy process, you and I did get a chance to talk about procedures and how one could be voting in committee.
I took your advice, which was good advice, to talk to the clerks. They are incredible individuals. They provided me with a document that I think we should all at least be aware of. This way, Mr. Chair, there's no confusion as time goes by.
I would like to read it. It's a very short rule—
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Mr. Lamoureux, there's no further debate. It's been very clear in the motion, so I have to put all the amendments and the clauses right now with no further debate. I have to follow the motion that was adopted by this committee.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
I'm going to follow the motion as adopted by the committee, and I will call the vote on NDP-4.
On division?
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Liberal
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Yes, we want a recorded vote.
(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])
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The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
I'm hesitant to do points of order, because the committee has instructed me how they want to proceed here.
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Conservative
Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB
I just want to ask if there is any way we could get unanimous consent to group some of these.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Okay.
Do we have unanimous consent to group any of these amendments?
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Yes.
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