Evidence of meeting #131 for Finance in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was carbon.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
Would anybody like to speak to it?
Can you repeat what you proposed, MP Dzerowicz?
12:05 p.m.
Liberal
Julie Dzerowicz Liberal Davenport, ON
I'd be happy to, Mr. Chair.
Basically, I would delete, in the fifth line, “for no fewer than two hours”. Everything else would remain the same.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and all the other witnesses listed here are invited to appear, with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance to appear separately. We would just take away the words “for no fewer than two hours”.
The norm, Mr. Chair, as you know, is one hour. That is typically the expectation of the Minister of Finance when he or she comes before the committee.
12:05 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
MP Dzerowicz, your microphone was not plugged in. Our interpreters were having trouble hearing you.
12:05 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
I would ask you to repeat one more time what you had to say so that we capture it with the interpreters.
I'm not sure if MP Ste-Marie was able to capture that in French.
He got it. Okay.
12:05 p.m.
Liberal
Julie Dzerowicz Liberal Davenport, ON
No problem. My apologies to the interpreters and to Monsieur Ste-Marie. I'm very sorry I forgot to plug in.
At any rate, my suggested amendment is to take out the words “for no fewer than two hours” in the fifth line. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance typically comes for an hour. I think that is the norm. I don't think it's necessarily for us to say anything else. I don't think “for no fewer than two hours” is needed.
That is what I'm proposing as an amendment. That might be a friendly amendment, or everybody could agree to it.
12:05 p.m.
Conservative
Jasraj Singh Hallan Conservative Calgary Forest Lawn, AB
Thanks, Chair.
I'll ask for a recorded vote on this amendment, please.
12:05 p.m.
NDP
Daniel Blaikie NDP Elmwood—Transcona, MB
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is not to be dismissive of my colleagues' concerns on either side with respect to the two hours, but we have been inviting the minister for two hours or three hours, and she does tend to show up for one hour. I'm not sure there's a lot at stake either way in this, if I'm being honest. I think we have a straightforward motion. Folks can like it or not, but I'm not sure that farting around with it will really make a big difference either way.
I would encourage us to maybe try to get to a decision on the main piece so we can conclude the meeting in a timely fashion instead of belabouring small differences that will have no practical consequence.
12:05 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
Does anybody else want to speak to the amendment? No? Okay.
(Amendment agreed to: yeas 6; nays 5 [See Minutes of Proceedings])
MP Baker.
March 15th, 2024 / 12:10 p.m.
Liberal
Yvan Baker Liberal Etobicoke Centre, ON
I just have a brief comment, Mr. Chair, and then we can move on.
On the motion itself, I think this issue is really important to all of our constituents. It's certainly worthy of studying.
Mr. Ste‑Marie, I want to address what you said in your remarks. I gather that you said that this issue is significant. You also said that the budget and the economic statement, which we'll need to work on, are priorities. According to the rules, the committee normally prioritizes them.
That said, given this and the significance of the issue, I'm prepared to support the motion.
12:10 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
Thank you, MP Baker.
Now we are going to the motion as amended.
(Motion as amended agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0)
It's unanimous; it passes. That's great.
MP Hallan.
12:10 p.m.
Conservative
Jasraj Singh Hallan Conservative Calgary Forest Lawn, AB
Mr. Chair, I just want to follow up on the programming of the last committee we had. I want to know if the finance minister is scheduled to come next week to the committee.
12:10 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
I know it's on the programming motion. I don't have information on that.
I have MP Blaikie, MP Chambers and then MP Baker.
12:10 p.m.
NDP
Daniel Blaikie NDP Elmwood—Transcona, MB
I just want to say how nice it is to see Liberals and Conservatives working together. It almost smacks of coalition—certainly by the threshold that's been applied to that term in this Parliament. Congratulations to the committee on dealing relatively expeditiously with the business of this meeting.
Given that we have had the opportunity to do so, I move to adjourn.
12:10 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
Okay. That's non-debatable, so we'll move to adjourn.
(Motion agreed to: yeas 7; nays 2)
We're adjourned. Thank you.