Evidence of meeting #124 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 children.
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Liberal
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Liberal
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Liberal
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
If you were listening, you would have heard that I asked for interpretation and he can repeat himself. I'm waiting for interpretation.
Go ahead, Martin. Begin again.
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Bloc
Martin Champoux Bloc Drummond, QC
Madam Chair, as my colleague Mr. Lawrence said, I completely agree with doing a full round, but we are starting with the questions a little earlier than I had expected. So I propose that we do the first round and, if there is time after that, I would be more than willing to have a fair allocation of speaking time among the parties for a second round.
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Conservative
Rachael Thomas Conservative Lethbridge, AB
I officially move a motion that we sit until 7 p.m.
It's a non-dilatory motion, so it needs to go to a vote.
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Liberal
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Liberal
Michael Coteau Liberal Don Valley East, ON
We've always worked off of consensus on timing. We can't go past 6:30. There are folks who have commitments and it's impossible for us to do so.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
Mr. Coteau, that's debate. I'm sorry, but that wasn't a point of order.
Let's go to the vote, please.
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The Clerk
The vote is on the motion from Mrs. Thomas to sit until 7 p.m.
I'm just checking to see if Mr. Noormohamed has joined us.
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Liberal
Michael Coteau Liberal Don Valley East, ON
Chair, can I make a point of order?
First of all, we just had an agreement that we wouldn't move any votes until my colleague came back. Mr. Lawrence clearly said that.
Number two, I've always been under the impression that we had to have a consensus in order to move forward with an extension of time. That's been the rule that we've always worked from. I don't think it's fair to accept this motion because it's out of this—
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Conservative
Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON
On a point of order, this is dilatory. There's no choice.
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Liberal
Michael Coteau Liberal Don Valley East, ON
The Conservatives were the ones who actually said to not make any votes until we can accommodate—
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
I am sorry, Michael. You're debating the motion to go to until 7:00.
Let's call the vote. It's a non-debatable motion.
Call the vote, please, Clerk.
Is Mr. Noormohamed here virtually now ? There he is. He can vote.
(Motion agreed to: yeas 6; nays 5)
The vote to sit until 7:00 has passed.
Go ahead, Mr. Coteau.
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Liberal
Michael Coteau Liberal Don Valley East, ON
Now I can bring up the point I was trying to bring up earlier.
Hasn't it always been the agreement in this committee to have unanimous consent in order to extend time? I remember that as clear as day. That's the way we've done things.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
No, that's not the way. I'm sorry, we just can't debate that, so we have to call the vote.
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Liberal
Michael Coteau Liberal Don Valley East, ON
Just so we're all clear on the record, from now on, extending time or changing times is based on the majority. Is that all?