Evidence of meeting #12 for Canadian Heritage in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was council.
A recording is available from Parliament.
4:40 p.m.
Conservative
Dean Del Mastro Conservative Peterborough, ON
The most we could be doing right now would be voting on the amendment, which is to strike “at its earliest convenience”. We are not voting on the motion as amended, because if this passes, I'm going to propose another amendment.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Okay. The amendment is that we strike “at its earliest convenience” from the motion. That's the amendment.
(Amendment agreed to)
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Conservative
4:40 p.m.
Conservative
Dean Del Mastro Conservative Peterborough, ON
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to add after the word “appear” the words “as soon as possible”.
The reason I feel it's critical that we hear from them as soon as possible is that I think they have testimony that this committee should be prepared to hear as soon as possible. If they're not prepared to hear it as soon as possible, I'd like to know what their agenda is with not wanting to hear from them. We're here anyway. Let's ask them to be here as soon as possible so that we can hear what they have to say.
4:40 p.m.
NDP
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
There's been an amendment made by Mr. Del Mastro to the motion that after “calls to appear”, we add “as soon possible”.
(Amendment negatived)
4:45 p.m.
Conservative
Shelly Glover Conservative Saint Boniface, MB
Mr. Chair, as a new member of Parliament, I am in awe that we, as parliamentarians who have a job to do for Canadians, are opting to do it half-assed and we're attempting to put forward a report that we all understand is not complete.
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Conservative
Shelly Glover Conservative Saint Boniface, MB
My amendment is that we have a special meeting to invite the Canada Council here to meet with this heritage committee to provide the details and information that they have to provide that is relevant to this study.
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NDP
Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON
Chair, that's another motion. We have a motion. You can't just start freeforming motions.
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Conservative
Shelly Glover Conservative Saint Boniface, MB
If you want to refer to the original proposed motion, we could add after “to appear” the words “in the week of April 20”.
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NDP
Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON
Can we just vote on the motion, Mr. Chair? They're freeforming now.
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Conservative
Dean Del Mastro Conservative Peterborough, ON
We're not freeforming. This is how the committee works, Charlie.
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Conservative
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NDP
Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON
We voted on the motion. We voted on “as soon as possible”, “at the earliest possible convenience”, and now it's April 20. Can we just vote on the motion that we're going to bring the Canada Council?
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Conservative
Dean Del Mastro Conservative Peterborough, ON
All right, Charlie, I get it. You don't want to hear from the Canada Council in the timeframe that would actually--
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Conservative
Dean Del Mastro Conservative Peterborough, ON
No, you're not fully supportive, because you don't want to hear from them during a timeframe where we might be able to quote what they have to say--
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NDP