Canadian Heritage Committee on June 14th, 2022

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Thank you.

We will suspend until Mr. Champoux receives that in written format.

I would hope Peter and Martin can work together on that with the clerk.

[Peter Julian, NDP, New Westminster—Burnaby, BC]

Absolutely, Madam Chair.

It will be forthwith.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Thank you, Peter.

Clerk, let me know when you've received all that and we're ready to call for debate on the amendment.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Mr. Champoux, are you satisfied that you have received what you wanted?

[Martin Champoux, Bloc, Drummond, QC]

Absolutely, Madam Chair. Everything is fine here.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Thank you very much.

Peter, did you want to take the floor again?

[Peter Julian, NDP, New Westminster—Burnaby, BC]

I always like to take the floor, Madam Chair, but I think in this circumstance I appreciate the committee's patience, so on this I think the wording is a good consensus and hopefully we can move forward with adoption of NDP-1, as amended.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

I need to entertain the subamendment if there are amendments other than the one you just read out.

You know, Mr. Julian, you cannot amend your own motion, so it's going to have to be someone else who will move any subamendments.

[Peter Julian, NDP, New Westminster—Burnaby, BC]

I'm looking for the distinguished Mr. Bittle, perhaps, to intervene. I think his hand's up, too.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

The distinguished Mr. Bittle's hand is up.

Mr. Bittle, please.

[Chris Bittle, Liberal, St. Catharines, ON]

Distinguished. I'm glad that's in Hansard.

I so move the subamendment, and we support the amendment.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

That's the amendment as read by Mr. Julian earlier on.

[Chris Bittle, Liberal, St. Catharines, ON]

That's correct.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Is everyone clear on what that amendment is? Shall I read it?

[Chris Bittle, Liberal, St. Catharines, ON]

I'm absolutely clear. We got an email specifying it.

[Rachael Thomas, Conservative, Lethbridge, AB]

No. It should be read into the record, please.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

All right, I will read it into the record. The subamendment coming from Mr. Bittle is as follows:

community element includes the element of the Canadian broadcasting system as part of which members of a community participate in the production of programs that are in a language used in the community, including a not-for-profit broadcasting undertaking that is managed by a board of directors elected by the community

Is that it, Mr. Bittle? Did you want to speak to the subamendment or shall I call the vote?

[Chris Bittle, Liberal, St. Catharines, ON]

I have nothing further, Madam Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Yes, Mr. Nater.

[John Nater, Conservative, Perth—Wellington, ON]

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I just have a small technical question. I might just be grammatically incorrect here, but in the email version, it says, “including not-for-profit broadcasting undertakings”. Should that be “undertakings” or “undertaking”?

[Peter Julian, NDP, New Westminster—Burnaby, BC]

It's “undertaking”. I'm sorry. The “s” would be a typo.

[John Nater, Conservative, Perth—Wellington, ON]

I just wanted to clarify that.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Thank you very much, Mr. Nater.

We will call the question, please, Clerk.

(Subamendment agreed to: yeas 10; nays 1 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

[The Chair, Liberal, Hedy Fry]

Thank you. It would seem, then, that this subamendment is carried.

Now we can vote on the amended motion.

Thank you very much.

[Elizabeth May, Green, Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC]

Madam Chair, on a point of order, just to clarify, an amendment amending the same clause is in the package, and we haven't gotten to the Green Party's PV-1 yet.