Evidence of meeting #114 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was see.
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Conservative
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Liberal
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Yes, by asking the committee to vote. He implied that I then implied there was a point of privilege, which there was not, and I never accepted that there was.
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
We're going to resume.
Because we haven't had a question of privilege in committee before, I'm going to read this out so everybody knows what I'm doing and why.
The Chair of a committee does not have the power to rule on questions of privilege; only the Speaker has that power. If a Member wishes to raise a question of privilege during a committee meeting or an incident arises in connection with the committee’s proceedings that may constitute a breach of privilege, the committee Chair allows the Member to explain the situation. The Chair then determines whether the question raised in fact relates to parliamentary privilege. If the Chair determines that the question does relate to parliamentary privilege, the committee may then consider presenting a report on the question to the House.
I allowed the member to explain his position on his privilege that was being impacted, and I am not accepting that.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Based on the fact that it was a motion that the committee moved in March on how to proceed. I've asked all the members of this committee numerous times to spend more time on this particular bill so that we could have more time to discuss it, and we did that way back. I have been asking this all along. We have been studying this bill now for almost three months.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
I'm saying that I've asked and been denied that opportunity to add hours, start earlier, add days, so I am not accepting that privilege has been denied, and we're going to move on.
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An hon. member
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Sorry, there's no motion. We're moving on. I've made the determination.
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Liberal
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Liberal
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
There's no motion. There's no time for a motion. That's not what's happening now.
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Liberal
