Procedure and House Affairs Committee on March 30th, 2010

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Well, we were going to check all of that, because you can't just lump them together and then hope that they'll come. We had to call and get availability for them all, and that was the discussion. And then we broke.

[Yvon Godin, NDP, Acadie—Bathurst, NB]

Okay. We broke and we're back and we're living in a Parliament in which, week after week, things could change—

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Sure it might.

[Yvon Godin, NDP, Acadie—Bathurst, NB]

--and it's changing right now.

For those reasons, I'm putting a motion to adjourn the meeting and we can come back to it another time.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Okay.

I'll take that motion, and that's fine. I'll remind you that I'm not here Thursday.

Would the meeting then be the following Tuesday--

[Yvon Godin, NDP, Acadie—Bathurst, NB]

The following Tuesday is all right.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

--to finish the scheduling of the witness list and do the budgeting for it?

[Yvon Godin, NDP, Acadie—Bathurst, NB]

Yes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

I have that motion.

On the motion, Mr. Guimond.

[Michel Guimond, Bloc, Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC]

On the motion, okay.

I do not know if Mr. Godin would—

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

The motion to adjourn is not debatable.

You know I love a good debate as much as the next guy.

I call the vote on....

Mr. Godin, would you like to say something?

[Yvon Godin, NDP, Acadie—Bathurst, NB]

I think we still could talk on that if you don't cut it off.

But maybe what I'm looking at is to send it to the steering committee, and we'll have a discussion at the steering committee to try to help this committee.

Would you agree to that?

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

Do you want to amend the motion then? Because your motion was just to adjourn.

[Yvon Godin, NDP, Acadie—Bathurst, NB]

Yes, I'll amend my motion saying I'm putting a motion to adjourn and then to have the steering committee meet on this issue.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

I think you've got to do it the other way. You've got to move to send it to the steering committee and leave the adjourn part off.

[Yvon Godin, NDP, Acadie—Bathurst, NB]

I'll take your advice, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

All right.

That said, if you send it to the steering committee on Thursday, I'm also a member of that committee, and I'm not here. Someone can--

[Yvon Godin, NDP, Acadie—Bathurst, NB]

No, we'll wait until you come back.

[Marcel Proulx, Liberal, Hull—Aylmer, QC]

We'll wait until you come back after the break.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

There's no meeting on Thursday. On the Tuesday we're back from the break, the steering committee will meet during this time.

There's also been a request for private members' business to meet on April 22. I think that's after that, though, so we're okay.

So we're okay? All right?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Okay. I'm all right with that.

Is there a motion to adjourn?

[An hon. member]

Yes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

All agreed?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.