Citizenship and Immigration Committee on Feb. 12th, 2009

[Alexandra Mendes, Liberal, Brossard—La Prairie, QC]

If I may, Mr. Chair, I have a question of grammar, period.

I would say “refugee claims”, not “refugee claimants”, because if we go back to family class sponsorships.... That's the only correction.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Are you happy with that, Ms. Chow?

[Olivia Chow, NDP, Trinity—Spadina, ON]

That's friendly.

[Alexandra Mendes, Liberal, Brossard—La Prairie, QC]

Very friendly.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

It's refugee claims.

Okay, Mr. Clerk, we're going to have a vote.

(Motion as amended agreed to: yeas 6; nays 5)

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

The motion as amended carries. That concludes the motions.

It's five minutes to eleven.

[Jim Karygiannis, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

I have another one.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

You withdrew that, so we're not going to hear that today.

Do you have a point of order, Mr. Dykstra?

[Rick Dykstra, Conservative, St. Catharines, ON]

No, it's not a point of order. I want to seek unanimous consent to move the following motion.

[Olivia Chow, NDP, Trinity—Spadina, ON]

It depends what it is.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Let's hear it and see if they give it you.

[Rick Dykstra, Conservative, St. Catharines, ON]

All right. It is that the chair report to the House at the earliest opportunity that this committee condemns in the strongest language the breach of trust in parliamentary privilege that occurred on Thursday, February 26, with the leaking of a clearly marked confidential report of the committee on citizenship and immigration; and that this committee further expresses its dismay that the spirit of cooperation, which has characterized proceedings in the preceding several meetings, has been poisoned by an attempt to unilaterally influence the committee's action through the leaking of this report.

I refer directly to a press release that was issued by IWA, the Independent Workers Association, the home worker section, which issued a news release. It's very clear that the release was issued based on this report that we received Thursday obviously being made available to someone in the press or someone in the media.

[Some hon. members]

Oh, oh!

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

There's no unanimous consent, Mr. Dykstra.

[Rick Dykstra, Conservative, St. Catharines, ON]

All right. I'll then issue my motion to be dealt with at our next session.

[Alexandra Mendes, Liberal, Brossard—La Prairie, QC]

Mr. Chair, what report did we receive on Thursday?

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

I don't know.

[Alexandra Mendes, Liberal, Brossard—La Prairie, QC]

We have the public servants here--

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

I don't know about this.

[Alexandra Mendes, Liberal, Brossard—La Prairie, QC]

We didn't receive any report. I didn't receive that. I don't have it.

[Jim Karygiannis, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

On a point of clarification, could the parliamentary secretary read--

[Alexandra Mendes, Liberal, Brossard—La Prairie, QC]

Would you mind waiting two seconds?

I don't have this report. Where is it?

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

This report?

[A voice]

You received it by mail.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

It came on e-mail.