Evidence of meeting #44 for Canadian Heritage in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was clause.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Philippe Méla  Legislative Clerk
Clerk of the Committee  Ms. Aimée Belmore
Danielle Widmer  Committee Clerk

3:05 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

The title is carried—

3:05 p.m.

Bloc

Martin Champoux Bloc Drummond, QC

To be perfectly honest, Mr. Chair, I must say that we did in fact hear a “no”.

3:05 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

I asked, “Did I hear a no?”, and someone said, “No”. I took that as the double negative. I apologize.

Let me just back up for a moment. Would we like a recorded vote? I can see a thumbs-up for a recorded vote.

3:05 p.m.

Conservative

Alain Rayes Conservative Richmond—Arthabaska, QC

Yes.

3:05 p.m.

Conservative

Scott Aitchison Conservative Parry Sound—Muskoka, ON

Absolutely. It would be wrong not to, now.

3:05 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

You may be on the right path, Mr. Aitchison.

Let me just ask the question again.

Shall the title carry?

(Title agreed to: yeas 7; nays 4)

Shall the bill, as amended, carry?

(Bill C-10 as amended agreed to: yeas 7; nays 4)

3:10 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

Shall the chair report the bill, as amended, to the House?

(Reporting of the bill as amended to the House agreed to: yeas 7; nays 4)

Shall the committee order a reprint of the bill, as amended, for the use of the House at report stage?

(Reprint of the bill agreed to: yeas 7; nays 4)

3:10 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

Colleagues, that brings us to an end.

I said at the beginning that this might be so exciting that we could sell the rights to Netflix. I was kidding at the time, but I'm not sure I'm kidding anymore. This has been quite an adventure.

3:10 p.m.

Bloc

Martin Champoux Bloc Drummond, QC

There would also have to be original content in French, Mr. Chair.

3:10 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

Yes, that's true. I accept.

I just want to thank everyone for your patience. I want to thank, in particular, our table staff, our legislative clerk, our clerks here in the House and our committee clerks, in particular, Aimée and Philippe. Thank you so much.

Émilie, I think you're there somewhere as well as our analysts from the Library of Parliament. Thank you so much as well.

Finally, I'd like to say hello and thank you to everybody who has been watching. I know sometimes going through this can be frustrating if you're trying to keep track of this.

I have some suggestions as to how this could be done in the future to provide a clear view as to what's going on, and I hope my colleagues will support me on that. If I may be so biased for a moment, perhaps it would be doing something like showing amendments on the screen or something of that nature. Nevertheless, I'll leave it at that. There are a lot of things to learn from this.

Thank you for your patience, everybody.

Monsieur Champoux, go ahead.

3:15 p.m.

Bloc

Martin Champoux Bloc Drummond, QC

Mr. Chair, I will leave the last word to you, of course, but I would just like to know if it is possible to find out when you plan to table this valuable document in the House. I suspect that some of my colleagues here will want to adjust their schedules to be here as well. I would like to have some clarification, if you have any to provide, of course.

3:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

Thank you for that, Mr. Champoux.

As mentioned before, it is going to be in short order, once we get a reprint done and back to the House. At that point, it's going to be up to the government House leader. I'll just leave it at that for now, because I can give you an approximate time, but I don't think I'd be.... It might get pushed beyond that, so I'd rather not give you a time right now.

Perhaps the legislative clerk can walk us through the reprint from here.

Go ahead, Mr. Méla.

3:15 p.m.

Legislative Clerk

Philippe Méla

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

As you know, Mr. Champoux, there are a number of committees working on bills right now, and many of them are at the reprint stage. So all these bills end up in the same place for reprinting. That's why the process takes a little longer than usual.

In the case of Bill C‑10, a lot of amendments and subamendments have been passed, so it's going to take a little bit longer still. However, we will try to produce the report by Monday or Tuesday at the latest. We will do our best at the end of the week.

3:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

That's, of course, what I meant by short order. They should have that done by then, and then it goes back to the order of the House.

By the way, we have a meeting on Monday. I'll update you at the very beginning of the meeting as to the progress of the reprint and report of Bill C-10 back to the House for report stage.

Go ahead, Ms. McPherson.

3:15 p.m.

NDP

Heather McPherson NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I just wanted to very quickly confirm that we are going to be meeting on Monday, because I will be bringing forward my motion that I think has been shared with the committee.

I also want to thank you very much. I know this hasn't been a very easy process to chair over the past few weeks and months, so thank you for all of your efforts on that.

3:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

Thank you, Ms. McPherson. I appreciate the compliment. Thank you so much.

There's one final bit of business, though. I did give word to Mr. Waugh that I would talk about his motion, if he desires to move it. We have about 12 minutes left in this meeting.

Mr. Waugh, go ahead. You have the floor.

June 11th, 2021 / 3:15 p.m.

Conservative

Kevin Waugh Conservative Saskatoon—Grasswood, SK

Thank you.

We did send out the notice of motion on Wednesday, June 9, and I will read it into the record:

That the Committee invite officials from the Department of Canadian Heritage to testify about the funding for the discovery of the remains of two hundred and fifteen Indigenous children on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, and what would be required to extend these efforts to all residential schools where unmarked graves may exist; and that Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation be invited to discuss the process of obtaining funding, how sufficient it was relative to the task, and what remains to be done.

I move my motion. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

3:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

Thank you, Mr. Waugh.

I think we've all heard quite clearly what the motion involves, what it entails and what it is about. Do I see any discussion on the motion?

Ms. Dabrusin.

3:15 p.m.

Liberal

Julie Dabrusin Liberal Toronto—Danforth, ON

Mr. Chair, just quickly, I think this is a good study. It talks a bit about the funding from Canadian Heritage that was given in the past towards healing on this and what we can learn from it. I thank him for the study.

3:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

Thank you, Ms. Dabrusin.

Seeing no further comments on that, we now go to a vote on the motion by Mr. Waugh.

Wait one second. The work on the reprint has begun already. There you go. That's a nice little update.

Let's go to the vote on the motion by Mr. Waugh. You have all heard it.

(Motion agreed to)

Congratulations, Mr. Waugh.

3:20 p.m.

Conservative

Kevin Waugh Conservative Saskatoon—Grasswood, SK

Thank you.

3:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Scott Simms

It was well said.

Without any further business to attend to, it is Friday and it is late in the day. Everyone, thanks again for your patience, and to the thousands of you listening to our webcast, thank you so much.

We shall see everyone on Monday. Thank you.

The meeting is adjourned.