Evidence of meeting #31 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was workers.
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Juris Doctor Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, As an Individual
Wait. Do we not...?
National Coordinator, Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform
This is actually not crazy for us—
Juris Doctor Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, As an Individual
Wait, wait, wait....
National Coordinator, Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform
—because this usually happens.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
Mr. Angus, order.
I will now suspend the meeting so that the motion can be distributed to the members.
If Madam Shanahan can get that over to the clerk so that the clerk can have it circulated to members in both official languages....
It may take some time now, unless Madam Shanahan does have it in both official languages.
I do apologize to our witnesses and to committee members—
Juris Doctor Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, As an Individual
Well, when do we come back?
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
Colleagues, I'm going to call this meeting back to order.
Colleagues, I will inform you on the record that we are still waiting for translation and as committee members know, the decision of the committee has been that we don't debate motions until they've been distributed in both official languages. We don't know what the reason is for the delay in translation, but we have several people on the speaking order. I'm hopeful that we may come to a solution.
I just want to verify again that Madam Shanahan, who's the mover of the motion, is unwilling to adjourn the debate on the motion.
Is that correct, Ms. Shanahan?
Liberal
Brenda Shanahan Liberal Châteauguay—Lacolle, QC
Chair, if there's unanimous consent to take up this motion on Friday, then we can hear from the witnesses now. We need unanimous consent from all members that we take up the motion on Friday.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
The only thing we can do at this point to move forward is to allow for the debate on this motion to be adjourned. I believe that it would be a debatable motion. If not, it would be on Friday or a different date.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
If one of our colleagues were to move an adjournment on this debate, there would have to be unanimous consent for the debate to be adjourned.
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
The adjournment would mean that there would no longer be a debate with regard to Ms. Shanahan's motion until such time as it was moved at a later date.
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
I'm getting a lot of “Chair” here. I do have a speaking order.
We'll move to Mr. Barrett first.
Conservative
Michael Barrett Conservative Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, ON
Thanks, Chair. That's why I was looking for your attention.
We had quite a bit of time left in the scheduled meeting. As Mr. Angus has pointed out, we have two minutes left until the scheduled end of the meeting. It's budget day, and members were expected to be in other locations.
I have not been a parliamentarian for as long as some others around this table have, but I have been to a lot of committee meetings and certainly it's the first time that I've seen witness testimony cut short with a table-drop motion looking for more witness testimony. The motion was provided in such a fashion that it can only be viewed as having been a dilatory tactic to avoid the other business that the committee had been dealing with on Friday past.
Chair, with apologies for the waste of time to the witnesses who have appeared today, and in recognition that this motion that's been put forward has been used to waste the time of committee, I move that the committee do now be adjourned.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
That is a non-debatable motion, so I'll ask the clerk to assist me with a roll call with regard to that motion.
