Point of order, Mr. Chair.
Evidence of meeting #23 for Official Languages in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was point.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #23 for Official Languages in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was point.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Conservative
John Weston Conservative West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC
Point of order, Mr. Chair.
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Conservative
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NDP
Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB
I am talking to you, Mr. Chair. According to what you said, a vote must be taken immediately, and you are wasting 10 minutes here listening to other comments. It must be done immediately. Do you know what “immediately” means?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
Yes, I know what it means. I would point out to you that I have not…
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
I allowed no one to speak on that debate. The motion is not debatable.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
I am explaining to members what they are voting on at the moment. Because there are members, Mr. Godin, who do not have your experience in committee and it is important to understand clearly what a dilatory motion is.
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NDP
Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB
Anyone who is a member of Parliament in Ottawa should know what “immediately” means.
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Conservative
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Conservative
John Weston Conservative West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC
I am a new member of this committee, and I have the interests of all members of the committee at heart. I do not know when I will have the time to talk about the lack of justice that is evident here, and that really is going to make us less and less effective.
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Conservative
John Weston Conservative West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC
I am not speaking from a partisan position, I am speaking from a desire to really make a point. If I understand correctly, I am not going to have the opportunity to do that. If that is the case, I do not want to be part of this committee. I think that most Canadians would be disgusted, and I think that it is really
a disgrace. So let's move on to this vote if we have to, but I'm telling you, informally or formally, inside or outside this committee, over coffee or otherwise, I want to speak to the other members, who are duly elected by Canadians, to fix something that is clearly broken. Because if it doesn't get fixed, I will not participate. I'll sit here and do my other work, other members will do so as well, and we will not contribute anything for what the taxpayers are paying us. So it's time that we do fix it.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
Thank you, but that is not a point of order.
I think we have all been clear. So I now call the question.
I think that a recorded vote was requested on Mr. Bélanger's dilatory motion.
(Motion agreed to by 6 votes to 5)
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
We are going to suspend the session for a few moments in order to study the report in camera.
[The session continued in camera.]
