Canadian Heritage Committee on April 18th, 2024

[The Clerk of the Committee, Ms. Geneviève Desjardins]

Yes.

I'll read the full motion with the amendment:

That, notwithstanding the motion adopted by the committee on Thursday, February 1, 2024, with respect to the review of Bill C-316, the committee schedule a minimum of three meetings with witnesses on April 18, April 30 and May 2 respectively; that the deadline for amendments be no earlier than April 30, 2024; and that the committee begin clause-by-clause consideration no earlier than May 7, 2024.

It is, at the earliest....

Give me a second. I'm sorry; I'm just going through the—

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Kevin Waugh]

Clerk, is there any way that amendment could be...?

[The Clerk]

Yes. I'm typing it up as we speak.

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Kevin Waugh]

Thank you.

[Rachael Thomas, Conservative, Lethbridge, AB]

Could we suspend until we get the language?

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Kevin Waugh]

Could we suspend for a second? We'll get this distributed to members.

We'll suspend for a couple of minutes.

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Kevin Waugh]

The clerk has just sent the amendment out to your P9s.

Before we get into a discussion, to the department officials, thank you. I don't think you're going to be needed. We're just about wrapped up here.

Mr. Dendooven and Mr. McMurren, thank you very much for your presence today. Thank you both for coming from the department.

We will have a discussion here, since Mr. Champoux has an amendment. Has everybody received the amendment? It is the following:

That, notwithstanding the motion adopted by committee on Thursday, February 1, 2024, with respect to the consideration of Bill—

[Joël Godin, Conservative, Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, QC]

On a point of order, Mr. Chair.

As I am not a regular member of this committee, I haven't received a copy of the amendment. Would it be possible for the clerk—

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Kevin Waugh]

You probably didn't get it, Mr. Godin.

[Joël Godin, Conservative, Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, QC]

Could you send it?

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Kevin Waugh]

Yes. Thank you.

[Joël Godin, Conservative, Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, QC]

Thank you. I'm sorry.

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Kevin Waugh]

Did you get it, Mr. Serré?

[Anthony Housefather, Liberal, Mount Royal, QC]

Mr. Chair, I didn't get it either.

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Kevin Waugh]

Okay, Mr. Housefather, we have old new members, and you're one of them. Mr. Louis has also joined us now, as well as Mr. McKinnon, although it really doesn't pertain to Bill C-316. Well, it does, but not for the vote here.

Go ahead, Mr. Gourde.

[Jacques Gourde, Conservative, Lévis—Lotbinière, QC]

Mr. Chair, we normally have to conclude at 5:30 p.m.

Do we have to make arrangements to continue beyond 5:30 p.m.? My colleague has to leave, and I also have something in 10 minutes. At worst, we could continue at the next meeting. It will be long in any case.

I'm disappointed that my colleague has brought his motion forward because I still had two or three questions for the witnesses. We may be forced to bring them back. I would have liked to put some questions to the witnesses. If we want to do a good job, we have to be able to ask all the questions we have to ask.

That being said, we may need one or two more meetings. We'll discuss this again at the next meeting.

I move that we adjourn.

[Martin Champoux, Bloc, Drummond, QC]

On a point of order, Mr. Chair.

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Kevin Waugh]

What's that, Mr. Champoux?

[Martin Champoux, Bloc, Drummond, QC]

You can't move to adjourn the meeting when you don't have the floor or when you take the floor following a point of order. I don't know what my colleague's intervention was about. I think we can resolve the matter in a few minutes if we all show—

[Joël Godin, Conservative, Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, QC]

On a point of order, Mr. Chair.

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Kevin Waugh]

Mr. Godin, go ahead.

[Joël Godin, Conservative, Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, QC]

As far as I know, you have to obtain the unanimous consent of the committee members in order to extend a meeting beyond its scheduled time.

[Martin Champoux, Bloc, Drummond, QC]

I'm pretty sure he has to get the support of a majority of members, not unanimous consent. We can put that question to Madam Clerk.

[The Vice-Chair, Conservative, Kevin Waugh]

After Mr. Champoux, I recognized Mr. Godin.

[Marc Serré, Liberal, Nickel Belt, ON]

There are two votes.