Citizenship and Immigration committee  During meeting number four, the committee adopted the following motion: That, in the opinion of the Committee, the government should declare a moratorium of deportations to Sri Lanka until a safe environment exists there, and that it should expedite any family class sponsorships and refugee claims from the danger zone; that the Committee adopt these recommendations as a Report to the House and that, pursuant to Standing Order 108(1), the Chair present it to the House.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The motion hasn't been amended yet; we're just on the amendment.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, there's no debate.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Then there's Ms. Chow's subamendment to your amendment that reads, after the words “government to respond”, “within 30 days”.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The way I understand it, the committee has agreed that this motion be divided. So Ms. Chow's first motion, which is largely from paragraph 2, would read as follows: That the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration reaffirm its previous position on spousal sponsorships in Canada and resubmit the following motion to Parliament: The Committee recommends that the government allow any applicant (unless they have serious criminality) who has filed their first in-Canada spousal or common law sponsorship application, accompanied by a permanent residency application, to be entitled to a temporary work permit and an automatic stay of removal until a decision is rendered on their application.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Shall the chair's ruling be sustained?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I understand Ms. Chow's motion to be that vote 1b be reduced to zero.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. I didn't get consent from the committee to pass it around.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That the unedited transcripts of Committee meetings (“Blues”) be distributed on request to interested members of the bureaucracy, media and public, provided that a clear caveat on their appropriate use accompanies them.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I believe so.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I understand it, it is that the order of questions for the first round of questioning be as follows: Liberal, Bloc, NDP, CPC. Questioning during the second round shall alternate between the opposition members and government members in the following fashion: Liberal, Bloc, Conservative, Conservative, Liberal, Conservative, Conservative, based on the principle that each committee member should have a full opportunity to question the witnesses.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As I understand it, Mr. Karygiannis proposes wording along these lines: “and that the notice of motion be calculated from the time it is filed with the clerk of the committee”.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm just signalling the researchers to come to the table.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am prepared to receive motions for the second vice-chair, who must be from a party other than that of the official opposition. I'm now prepared to receive motions to this effect.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Am I to understand that now only Mr. Bevilacqua's name should be considered by the committee?