Canadian Heritage Committee on Oct. 9th, 2024

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Yes, he can do that. He can ask for a suspension.

[Michael Coteau, Liberal, Don Valley East, ON]

Can I just say “point of order” any time and request to suspend?

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

No, he said he had a point of order, which was to say—

[Michael Coteau, Liberal, Don Valley East, ON]

I won't argue with the chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

—that it was already discussed, Mr. Coteau, and now he says he wants to suspend. I don't see the problem in suspending for a short period of time for the Conservatives to discuss among themselves how to deal with this.

Go ahead, and the Liberals can discuss it. Everybody else can discuss it among themselves.

Yes, we'll suspend.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

The committee resumes.

Mr. Coteau, you have the floor.

[Michael Coteau, Liberal, Don Valley East, ON]

Thank you very much, Madam Chair.

I'd like to move a motion to adopt this motion now.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Okay, so moved.

We will have a vote so that the committee can proceed to adopting this motion now.

[The Clerk]

Is it to consider this motion?

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

We have to consider this motion, so we will resume the debate on it.

[Taleeb Noormohamed, Liberal, Vancouver Granville, BC]

I have a point of order.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

We will resume the debate on it. Now, let's get the vote.

[Taleeb Noormohamed, Liberal, Vancouver Granville, BC]

I have a point of order.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Will you consider adopting the motion?

[Taleeb Noormohamed, Liberal, Vancouver Granville, BC]

Just to clarify, we are now voting so that we can talk about the motion—

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

We're voting to put the motion back on the table.

[Taleeb Noormohamed, Liberal, Vancouver Granville, BC]

—and not to pass it or to fail it. We're just trying to talk about it.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Yes.

[Dan Albas, Conservative, Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, BC]

Could you explain this to me, Madam Chair? Member Ashton brought forward an amendment, but she was not in order to do that because Mr. Noormohamed was not in a position to move something because the business of the committee was left undone from the meeting of May 9.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

We were still trying to find all of that information, and we just found it all.

[Dan Albas, Conservative, Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, BC]

It was discovered by the clerk. Okay. That's good.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

We are now exactly where we were on that day, so we have to now vote on the motion that this committee now entertain this motion to be part of today's proceedings.

[Dan Albas, Conservative, Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, BC]

The question I would ask, Madam Chair, is this. If Mr. Noormohamed had not...because he moved something incorrectly, so we shouldn't even be in this discussion. We actually should still be dealing with the business of the committee.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

No, he had to move it. We now have to decide not if we want to adopt the motion, but if we want to deal with it.

[Dan Albas, Conservative, Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, BC]

We shouldn't be discussing his motion without a resumption first, though.