Environment Committee on Dec. 7th, 2017

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

—to my legislative clerk, and he will help us out.

Go ahead. You can speak into the mike and give us guidance.

[Olivier Champagne]

Okay.

If you look at page 1 of the bill, you see there are three subclauses in clause 1.

[John Aldag, Liberal, Cloverdale—Langley City, BC]

Yes.

[Olivier Champagne]

When we adopted clause 1, we adopted all those three subclauses.

[Mike Bossio, Liberal, Hastings—Lennox and Addington, ON]

It was all three.

[Olivier Champagne]

Right now we're in clause 3, which is on page 2—

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

I have a point of order. That is not the way we've been doing it. I think we need to get unanimity on this.

[Mark Gerretsen, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

Let's not challenge the—

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

I'm not challenging. I'm just asking for clarification.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Hold on. The legislative—

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

Let me finish. I have the floor.

As the chair has been doing, she's been going through each piece of these. We need to decide if we're going to go through each piece of each clause or if we are going to vote on the whole clause. It's important, because as we proceed—for example, under “Principles”—I think we're going to want individual discussions.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

That's where we're going to get into detail.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

What you've done is you've gone bit by bit. I'm not sure people realize yet that they were also voting for the “Purpose”. I don't think there are any objections, but—

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Go ahead, Olivier.

[Olivier Champagne]

When there's no amendment on the clause, we vote on the complete clause. When there are amendments on the clause, we open the clause and we consider the amendments as they amend the clause line by line.

The first amendment to amend clause 3 is LIB-1. Then we'll consider NDP-1 after LIB-1. After we consider all the amendments on clause 3, we will vote on clause 3 as amended or not.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

It's different from what we've been doing.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

When you say “what we've been doing”, I'm not sure—

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

Because....

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

We've been doing, where?—

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

Because you read out—

[John Aldag, Liberal, Cloverdale—Langley City, BC]

Yes.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

—“Minister means”, and we voted.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Okay.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

I'm just asking which way we are going to do it. Are we going to vote all on clause 1, or are we going to vote on it piece by piece?

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Okay. I think I confused you by the way I did it.