Evidence of meeting #121 for Canadian Heritage in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was subamendment.
A recording is available from Parliament.
5:15 p.m.
Liberal
5:15 p.m.
Liberal
Michael Coteau Liberal Don Valley East, ON
Can we just hold for one second? Can I read it over again before we go forward, Mr. Chair, just for 30 seconds?
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
5:15 p.m.
Bloc
Martin Champoux Bloc Drummond, QC
Mr. Chair, I have nothing against my colleague Ms. Thomas's proposed amendment. In fact, the first part of the motion is complete, insofar as we wish to receive a visit from the minister. Everything that follows, i.e., the text that Ms. Thomas proposes to strike out, can very well be part of the discussions we'll hold during the minister's visit.
So I would be inclined to support this amendment, which seems to me quite reasonable if we want to get things done quickly. I think I'll support the amendment and the motion as amended.
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
The Vice-Chair Conservative Kevin Waugh
Yes, I did. I'm sorry. You said you needed 30 seconds to read it over. Are you good? If not, I'm going to Mr.—
5:15 p.m.
Liberal
Michael Coteau Liberal Don Valley East, ON
You gave me about five minutes there. You must think it takes me a long time to read this.
I'm only kidding. I'm good, Mr. Chair.
5:15 p.m.
Conservative
5:15 p.m.
Liberal
Taleeb Noormohamed Liberal Vancouver Granville, BC
I apologize. I stepped out of the room for 30 seconds.
We have the amendment, and we're waiting on the subamendment to be circulated. Am I correct?
5:20 p.m.
Liberal
5:20 p.m.
Liberal
Taleeb Noormohamed Liberal Vancouver Granville, BC
Can we just take a second? Can we suspend so that we can have a chance to look at it and talk about it?
5:20 p.m.
Conservative
The Vice-Chair Conservative Kevin Waugh
Okay. We're just eliminating the last two and a half lines. That's all that we were doing, but we can suspend for a minute.
5:20 p.m.
Conservative
5:20 p.m.
Liberal
Taleeb Noormohamed Liberal Vancouver Granville, BC
Thank you, Chair.
In principle, we would support the amendment. I think the challenge for us is obviously the date. We would be prepared to support the amendment proposed by Ms. Thomas without the date, noting that getting the minister here on that date may not actually work.
The other thing I would mention is that I think the word “strategy” appears twice. I'm assuming that's probably a typo.
If there's a willingness to change the date, we're happy to propose a subamendment to alter the date, but we have no issue with the content of the amendment.
5:20 p.m.
Conservative
The Vice-Chair Conservative Kevin Waugh
If you're changing it to June 19, it would be a different amendment and not a subamendment.
5:20 p.m.
Liberal
Taleeb Noormohamed Liberal Vancouver Granville, BC
The other thing I would suggest, just reflecting on it, is, again, there's no disagreement with the spirit of the motion or the amendment. We've always had a practice of having the minister for an hour and officials for an hour. I would offer that we continue that practice, if Ms. Ashton and others are open to it. I think this is something that we all kind of seem to want to be able to get to, so maybe we can find a way to do it.
5:20 p.m.
Conservative
Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON
I don't disagree with anything that Mr. Noormohamed had to say. The only thing I would say procedurally is to vote on this amendment and get this done. Then you can move a second amendment on the date and the hours, and we'll see how that goes.
Otherwise, we could discuss it all together. It's whatever you want to do.
5:20 p.m.
Conservative
The Vice-Chair Conservative Kevin Waugh
Mr. Champoux, are you good?
I'm sorry, Ms. Ashton; go ahead.