Evidence of meeting #49 for Status of Women in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was hoeppner.

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On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Angela Crandall  Committee Clerk, House of Commons

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Ms. Hoeppner.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Yes.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

I think you are asking members to speak to their caucus. That's not particularly appropriate. Let's stick to the message.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Madam Chair, can I--

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Members will speak--

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

I have--

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Excuse me. Members will speak to the issue.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

I have the right to ask that. They don't have to.

Okay, call the question. Just call the question.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

You're telling members that they are coming and voting and speaking to an issue without any prior decision-making. I think it really speaks to the fact that you are suggesting that the members here did not think about how they're going to vote. I think that's not something you should presume, that people are not thinking how they vote. I would not presume to think that you don't think how you vote.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Madam Chair, you cut me off. I had my time and you cut me off.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

I am speaking.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Well, I was speaking before you were.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Do not yell, Ms. Hoeppner. Please keep your cool.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

My cool is kept, thank you very much. Don't tell me.... I am not yelling.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Yes, you are.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

I'm being very emphatic and I'm being very passionate. I have a right to speak. You cut me off, and I would like to finish what I was saying.

You might not like what I say, Madam Chair, but I do have a right to say it. I'm an elected member of Parliament, I'm on this committee, and I have a right to encourage the opposition members to look at their colleagues, because we're discussing the long gun registry now, apparently. Now we're on the long gun registry, so I have a right to say that even members of their own party have supported the vote and have said the long gun registry is nothing to end violence against women.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Except you have a tendency, when the chair is speaking, not to listen. I am the chair of this committee.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Yes, you are.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Excuse me, Ms. Hoeppner.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

You have a tendency to stop other people from speaking.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

There is decorum within a committee.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

You have a tendency to stop other people from speaking.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Ms. Hoeppner, please be careful.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Or?

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Because I'm the chair.