Justice Committee on Feb. 9th, 2009

[Réal Ménard, Bloc, Hochelaga, QC]

If my colleague Mr. Storseth has no objections, we could combine the two motions. I'm sorry that I didn't discuss this possibility with him earlier. We could also set aside two or three meetings to examine section 13, along with my motion, since both items relate to the Canadian Human Rights Act. Perhaps you could even report back to the House.

[The Chair, Conservative, Ed Fast]

Mr. Storseth, what's your will?

[Brian Storseth, Conservative, Westlock—St. Paul, AB]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

As Mr. Ménard has indicated, we haven't had the opportunity to discuss this yet, so I'm not prepared today to move my motion forward. I will gladly take the time to talk to Mr. Ménard about it after the meeting or tomorrow and see what we can do with regard to it.

[The Chair, Conservative, Ed Fast]

Mr. Ménard, are you prepared to defer moving forward with your motion until the next meeting?

[Réal Ménard, Bloc, Hochelaga, QC]

I am.

[The Chair, Conservative, Ed Fast]

So we've disposed of that one.

We have one left, and that, I believe, is Mr. Comartin's motion. I believe he has indicated that he doesn't want to deal with it until after the break.

Is that correct?

[Joe Comartin, NDP, Windsor—Tecumseh, ON]

That's correct, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Conservative, Ed Fast]

All right, then we've disposed of the five motions for the time being.

There is one motion we could use, given the fact that we've already agreed to move forward with the study on impaired driving. In order to move evidence from the last Parliament forward to this study, there's a motion that would typically read that the evidence and documentation received by the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights during the second session of the 39th Parliament in relation to its comprehensive review of matters related to impaired driving be taken into consideration by the committee in this session.

Is that your wish?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Ed Fast]

Would someone then move that?

[Réal Ménard, Bloc, Hochelaga, QC]

I so move.

[The Chair, Conservative, Ed Fast]

Monsieur Ménard moves it, and we do it by consent. It's deemed to be adopted.

(Motion agreed to)

[The Chair, Conservative, Ed Fast]

The next item is going to be the report from the steering committee, as well as further discussion on the work plan. For that, I think we'll be moving in camera. If it's agreeable,what we'll do is suspend this meeting and go in camera.

We are suspended.

[Proceedings continue in camera]