Bill C-2 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) Committee on June 14th, 2006

[Monique Guay, Bloc, Rivière-du-Nord, QC]

Mr. Chairman, I'd simply like to remind you that throughout debate on Bill C-2, the translators always used the word “responsabilité”, not “imputabilité”. That was the term used throughout our study of the bill in committee. So then, even the House of Commons interpretation and translation services always refer to “responsabilité”, not “imputabilité”. Therefore, I think we've proven our point.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

I'll call the question on amendment BQ-1.

(Amendment agreed to)

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

So that's the end of amendment G-1.

(Clause 1 as amended agreed to)

Monsieur Sauvageau, do you have a point of order?

[Benoît Sauvageau, Bloc, Repentigny, QC]

Yes.

Before we conclude, Mr. Chairman, with your permission, I'd like to thank you as well as the members of the committee, the staff, the interpreters...

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

You know what? We're not there yet.

[Some hon. members]

Oh, oh!

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

I wish you hadn't even started that.

There will be an opportunity for members to speak once we've concluded everything and we have all of this out of the way. The chair would like to start off, and then members can join in--if we ever finish this.

All right. So we have voted on clause 1 as amended.

Shall the title carry?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Shall the bill as amended carry?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Shall I report the bill as amended to the House?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Shall the committee order a reprint of the bill?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Okay. Before you all run out of here, the chair would like to make a few comments--it's my prerogative as chair--and other members may wish to add to this.

This has obviously been a difficult time. We have finished, and I would like to thank all members of the committee for helping me out, because there were some times when I needed help. I do appreciate all that help.

However, there are others who we should thank, and this is going to take a while, so hold off your applause. It's like the end of a movie, you know, when they list all those things. This is what this is--the credits.

First of all, I certainly couldn't have been up here without the clerk, Miriam Burke. I want you to give her a special hand.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear!

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

I'm going to list some names from the committees directorate--and I wasn't familiar with that term--Caroline Martin, Melissa Mastroguiseppe, Lise Tierney, Sharron Scullion, Robert Hoffman, and Diane Lefebvre.

From the legislative unit are Michael Lukyniuk, Susan Baldwin, Joann Garbig, Wayne Cole, and Mike Macpherson.

Let's give all those people a hand.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear!

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Then there are all the other committee staff, the interpreters, the console staff, and the messengers. Let's give them a hand, particularly those guys back there.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear!

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

From the library--you should know some of these names, but we're going to list them because there are quite a few--we have Katharine Kirkwood, Kristen Douglas, Nancy Holmes, Sebastian Spano, Margaret Young, Wade Riordan Raaflaub, Lydia Scratch, Élise Hurtubise-Loranger, Alex Smith, Jack Stilborn, Sam Banks, Philippe Le Goff, Tara Gray, and Brian O'Neal.

I want you to give all those people a hand.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear!

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Then we have these two people here, Mr. Wild and Ms. Cartwright.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear!

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

And if you could, please pass on your thanks to the people who have helped you and have from time to time come here. We do appreciate all of your work and your putting up with the committee. You've been very good to us.

Thanks to the House of Commons law clerk, Mr. Rob Walsh, and his staff.