Evidence of meeting #39 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was point.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
I'll bring this meeting to order. It's meeting number 39, and we're continuing with our committee business.
Mr. Warawa.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC
All I'm going to do is read it into the record and call for the vote. I move:
That, pursuant to Standing Order 97.1(1), and after concluding hearings, the Committee recommends that the House of Commons do not proceed further with Bill C-469, an act to establish a Canadian Bill of Rights, because the Bill: will enable any resident of Canada to challenge any regulatory standard, at any time, thereby trumping the existing regulatory process, creating regulatory and investment unpredictability; will encroach on areas of provincial environmental jurisdiction; does not allow for the balance of the Social, Economic and Environmental pillars of Sustainable Development; overlaps with aspects of existing Federal legislation and policies which give rise to redundancy or conflict; removes numerous safeguards which ensure that environmental rights do not overwhelm government capacity and judicial resources.
My hope is that we move right to the vote and that we have a recorded vote.
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NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
Mr. Chair, I didn't hear the last part of what he said. There was a lot happening at this end.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
Mr. Warawa wants to have a vote on this, but I do see hands flying.
Ms. Duncan, I saw you--
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Conservative
Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC
That's fine. If she couldn't hear what I said.... We have no intent to put up speakers; we'd like to go right to a vote and get this over. And I asked for a recorded vote.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
I do have a speakers list going. I have Ms. Duncan--
Point of order, Monsieur Ouellet.
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Bloc
Christian Ouellet Bloc Brome—Missisquoi, QC
Or it's just a point of information.
I thought we could not vote while there were still names left on the speakers list. It seems to me some names remained on that list the other night. So we cannot vote.
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Conservative
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Bloc
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
I have Ms. Duncan, Mr. Woodworth, Mr. Scarpaleggia, and then Monsieur Ouellet. Ms. Murray...?
Ms. Duncan, you have the floor.
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NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
So the motion, as I understand it, is that Mr. Warawa wants to reopen these hearings?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
The motion Mr. Warawa has put on the floor at every meeting for the last three meetings now is that the committee recommend to the House that it does not proceed further with Bill C-469.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
When we finished the last meeting we were debating Mr. Calkins' motion, which was tabled--
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Conservative
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NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
So how do we all of a sudden take another motion on the floor when we haven't voted on the motion that's already on the floor?