Transport Committee on March 27th, 2014

[The Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

No, it's my time. I didn't interrupt you when you had your 10 minutes. I'm just asking if you've heard that term. No? So you—

[Richard Boudreault]

I'm not going to say the answer you want me to answer.

[The Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

It isn't about wanting—

[Richard Boudreault]

The thing is that Transport Canada, Mr. Chair—

[The Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

No—

[Richard Boudreault]

Transport Canada, okay—

[Hoang Mai, NDP, Brossard—La Prairie, QC]

Point of order, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

Mr. Boudreault, you're out of order.

[Richard Boudreault]

The safety board pronounced on that themselves—

[The Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

I'm asking you—

[Hoang Mai, NDP, Brossard—La Prairie, QC]

Point of order, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

I'll get to you when I think it's a point of order.

I asked something specifically because you said that in there, and the reason that I'm asking this.... Whether you agree with one or two or whatever is not the point that I'm getting at here. In all early reports on the Lac-Mégantic thing, and God only knows none of us ever want to see that happen again.... But there were rules put in place...that if the gentleman who was looking after that train had put on the 11 brakes that he should have under the laws that were there, it probably wouldn't have happened. You know, we'll never be able to probably judge that completely—

[Richard Boudreault]

Mr. Chair, there is no conclusion, okay?

[The Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

No, no. That's right, I never—

[Richard Boudreault]

This is your conclusion, okay? This is not the report of the BST right now.

[The Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

True. I never—

[Richard Boudreault]

The report has not been—

[The Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

I'm not suggesting that it was.

I'm just saying that probably it wouldn't. I think we could all say that.

[Richard Boudreault]

That is your opinion, Mr. Chair.

[Hoang Mai, NDP, Brossard—La Prairie, QC]

On that point of order, Mr. Chair?

[Richard Boudreault]

That is your opinion.

[The Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

You had a point of order, Mr. Mai?

[Hoang Mai, NDP, Brossard—La Prairie, QC]

Yes. With all due respect, Mr. Chair, I think that so far since I've come to this committee, having sat on the finance and justice committees, I find it a bit surprising coming from the chair to be as partisan and, quite frankly—

[The Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

It's not partisan, Mr. Mai.

[Hoang Mai, NDP, Brossard—La Prairie, QC]

—to ask a question to a witness and tell him or her, “Answer yes or no”. We've never done that even as partisan—