That is what I would like to suggest.
Evidence of meeting #7 for Finance in the 40th Parliament, 3rd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was nortel.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #7 for Finance in the 40th Parliament, 3rd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was nortel.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
Bloc
Conservative
Liberal
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.
Bloc
Daniel Paillé Bloc Hochelaga, QC
As long as it is already there, I would agree to make that exception.
Conservative
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 It can only be withdrawn, as I understand it, with unanimous consent.
Bloc
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We can table it, but I don't want it to be withdrawn.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?
Conservative
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 It has to be withdrawn, and it can only be withdrawn with unanimous consent.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.
Conservative
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
There is not unanimous consent. We have to deal with the motion.
Conservative
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.
Liberal
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.
Conservative
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”.
Liberal
Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
You guys tax more than I've ever seen any government tax anything.
