Finance Committee on April 13th, 2010

[Daniel Paillé, Bloc, Hochelaga, QC]

That is what I would like to suggest.

[The Chair, Conservative, James Rajotte]

You don't have a timing restriction on the motion itself.

[Daniel Paillé, Bloc, Hochelaga, QC]

No.

[The Chair, Conservative, James Rajotte]

So I don't see what that would--

[Daniel Paillé, Bloc, Hochelaga, QC]

However, I would like it to be debated and voted on.

[The Chair, Conservative, James Rajotte]

Okay.

I have Mr. Pacetti, and then Mr. Marston.

[Massimo Pacetti, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

We're not talking about the same thing. Tabling it means that we don't defeat it and we don't accept it. There is some wording that....

I mean, just quickly, I don't like the word “introduction”.

In French, the term “adoption” suggests that it is a fait accompli.

Rather than debating the wording of the motion, I suggest that we put it on the agenda. We could then come back to it in three, four or five weeks' time, because there will certainly have been some developments in that area around the world. We will be wasting our time debating the motion, if it's because we are uncomfortable with two or three words.

[Daniel Paillé, Bloc, Hochelaga, QC]

As long as it is already there, I would agree to make that exception.

[The Chair, Conservative, James Rajotte]

I can have the clerk explain, but the problem is that once the motion is moved, it becomes the property of the committee. It can only be withdrawn, as I understand it, with unanimous consent.

[Massimo Pacetti, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

Everybody is okay with it.

[An hon. member]

This is tabling it. Is that right?

[Massimo Pacetti, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

Yes, we're okay with it.

[Daniel Paillé, Bloc, Hochelaga, QC]

We can table it, but I don't want it to be withdrawn. If there are suggested amendments, perhaps we could table it but not necessarily vote on it. Right?

[The Chair, Conservative, James Rajotte]

We cannot table the motion. Once a motion is introduced, it cannot be tabled. It has to be withdrawn, and it can only be withdrawn with unanimous consent. So we either deal with it or we withdraw it with unanimous consent.

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

Is he moving to withdraw the motion?

[The Chair, Conservative, James Rajotte]

Is there unanimous consent to withdraw this motion?

[Ted Menzies, Conservative, Macleod, AB]

No.

[The Chair, Conservative, James Rajotte]

There is not unanimous consent. We have to deal with the motion.

[Daniel Paillé, Bloc, Hochelaga, QC]

I am very happy to see that.

[The Chair, Conservative, James Rajotte]

I have Mr. Pacetti and Mr. Marston now.

Colleagues, if we can't finish it by 5:30 today, we'll have to move it to Thursday.

Go ahead, Mr. Pacetti.

[Massimo Pacetti, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

I will just propose a friendly amendment, that en anglais it would say, “That the Committee undertake a study on a tax on international...”. Just remove the words “introduction of”.

In the French version, we could simply remove the word “l'adoption”. It would read: That the Committee undertake a study on a tax on transactions.

[The Chair, Conservative, James Rajotte]

Your amendment in English is to remove the words “introduction of” and

in French, it is the word “l'adoption”.

[Ted Menzies, Conservative, Macleod, AB]

Could we put “Liberal tax” in there?

[The Chair, Conservative, James Rajotte]

Okay.

[Massimo Pacetti, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

You guys tax more than I've ever seen any government tax anything.