Evidence of meeting #116 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
Has Mr. Berthold's amendment been distributed?
We're ready to vote.
Conservative
Luc Berthold Conservative Mégantic—L'Érable, QC
That the motion be amended by adding after the words “forestry sector” the following: “given the Quebec government has assessed that at least 2,000 jobs will be impacted”.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
Understood. It's fairly straightforward.
Clerk, let's vote.
(Amendment agreed to: yeas 10; nays 1)
Liberal
Liberal
Liberal
Bloc
Monique Pauzé Bloc Repentigny, QC
Mr. Chair, I was on the list to speak to the amendment. Since the amendment passe, I'll give the floor to Mr. van Koeverden.
Liberal
Adam van Koeverden Liberal Milton, ON
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The amendment that I'm proposing just changes it to “the Committee hold a minimum of four meetings”, and, under paragraph b), includes an additional and specific stakeholder. It would read, “including AFNQL's Ghislain Picard, the Municipality of Sacré-Coeur and the Boisaco cooperative for one hour”.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
I'll go to the English version of the motion.
The amendment basically is to say that “to this end, the Committee hold a minimum of four meetings”, so three changes to four.
Where do you want the second amendment to be inserted?
Liberal
Adam van Koeverden Liberal Milton, ON
That will go under paragraph b). In the French, it's different. For some reason, there are numbers rather than letters, but in the English version—
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
It would read, “representatives of the First Nations concerned,” I guess, “including”—
Liberal
Adam van Koeverden Liberal Milton, ON
That would be followed by “and any other witnesses the Committee deems necessary”, which is there already, and then a comma. The new part will read, “including AFNQL's Ghislain Picard, the Municipality of Sacré-Coeur and the Boisaco cooperative for one hour”.
I can send it to the clerk.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
Can you send it to the clerk? Then we'll have the exact wording, which we can read out.
Conservative
Luc Berthold Conservative Mégantic—L'Érable, QC
This amendment is actually two completely different amendments. I think we should—
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
Do you want the committee to decide on the number of meetings first?
Conservative
Luc Berthold Conservative Mégantic—L'Érable, QC
Yes, I think we should stick to one subject per amendment.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
All right, then. We'll start by debating and voting on the first amendment, then we'll move on to the second.
Conservative
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
Okay.
We're talking about the amendment to propose four meetings instead of three. Would you like to speak to it?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
I'm sorry. Did you have something else to say about your proposed amendment?
Liberal
Adam van Koeverden Liberal Milton, ON
Mr. Berthold intervened, but I think I still have the floor. It's my amendment, and I think it's perfectly fine to have two sections where we amend.
The reason we're increasing the number of meetings by one, to four, is to include Monsieur Picard, so it's not appropriate to vote in two rounds. It's entirely standard to just vote once on this.
I'm currently sending it to you and the clerk.