I appreciate that. Thank you.
Evidence of meeting #30 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 chair.
A video is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #30 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 chair.
A video is available from Parliament.
6:15 p.m.
Conservative
6:15 p.m.
Liberal
Anthony Housefather Liberal Mount Royal, QC
I'm just wondering, Madam Chair, can the clerk please, then, circulate the subamendment by email to everybody so we could all have it in front of us? I have essentially very little understanding of where the proposed substitution is.
6:15 p.m.
Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
I would be supportive of that. We could suspend the meeting until we all get that. I would appreciate getting a copy as well, please.
6:15 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
I would remind the committee we have a hard stop for the staff to leave and for the room to be empty at 6:48 p.m.
I'll suspend for the clerk to send the subamendment to everyone.
6:15 p.m.
Conservative
6:15 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
I don't know, Mr. Coteau. For as long as the clerk takes until she sends it. I have no idea how long that will take the clerk, Mr. Coteau.
6:15 p.m.
Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
It also, I suspect, needs to be in both official languages.
6:15 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
This is what the Conservatives have been asking for, both official languages, so I think we have to, as Ms. Thomas would agree, stick to what we say we're going to do in both official languages.
6:20 p.m.
NDP
Peter Julian NDP New Westminster—Burnaby, BC
Thank you, Madam Chair.
I just want to state for the record, through you to the clerk, that we will be submitting our amendments tomorrow at 4 p.m..
We believe it's fundamentally important that staff be respected. As a result of that, I'm giving you the information that the NDP will be submitting our amendments by tomorrow at 4 p.m. We've been working on them diligently. As we've been hearing, it's important to be able to two things at once, Madam Chair, to both hear from witnesses but also incorporate the information they've been providing, so we will be submitting them.
6:20 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
Thank you very much, Mr. Julian. That's good news, indeed, and I think that the legislative clerk and so on—
6:20 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
We have a order coming here. I wish that people would please mute their mikes on the floor, so that I don't have to listen to myself shout into a big room.
Mr. Champoux.
6:20 p.m.
Bloc
Martin Champoux Bloc Drummond, QC
For our part, we like to hear you, Madam Chair.
That said, I don't know if the point raised by Mr. Julian was really a point of order, so I don't know if I should raise a point of order or simply ask for clarification. In any event, I want to say that the Bloc Québécois has also been working for several days to prepare amendments to Bill C-11, and we will be tabling them by tomorrow, Friday, at 4 p.m., in accordance with what we have been trying to get passed since the beginning of the week.
I wanted to say that we, too, think it's very important that the bill be allowed to go forward. So we are going to be ready and our amendments will be sent to the legislative clerk tomorrow, before 4 p.m., as the committee generally wishes.
