Evidence of meeting #94 for Finance in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site.) The winning word was chair.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
That point of order was dealt with. There was no unanimous consent to group amendments.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
I'm instructed to deal with the amendments and put the votes successively. So if we get into a series of points of order, I will not be doing that.
Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
This is a serious point or order.
Mr. Chair, to the clerk through you, is it necessary to have unanimous consent for a grouping? If it's the NDP's motion, I think it's up to them whether they want to group them or not. I don't think it's up to unanimous consent.
So the NDP can group their motions, if they would like to, same as we could if we wanted to group ours. It's not up to unanimous consent.
Conservative
Liberal
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Yes, on the same point of order, to the very best of my knowledge, when you're dealing with any form of amendments or subamendments at the committee stage in which any sort of a grouping is made, any member of the committee can object to the grouping. The originator doesn't matter, any member of the committee can request that they not be grouped. The reason they do that is that ultimately they want to ensure the rights of each person to participate by ensuring an actual recorded vote.
If you don't allow that, if you allow the grouping without having unanimous consent, you're forcing some members of the committee not to be able to voice their vote on what could be a very important amendment.
So, Mr. Chair, I think it's probably best if we continue on.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
I am advised by the clerks that this is something I cannot do, that I would need unanimous consent to do so.
Conservative
Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB
Thank you.
I want to ask one more question, then, on that point. Mr. Lamoureux is asking if we can have a recorded vote on a group of votes, is that correct? If that's the roadblock to this, surely we can have a recorded vote on a block and we can get beyond this, if that is Mr. Lamoureux’s thinking.
Conservative
Conservative
Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB
I move that we group the votes and have a recorded vote on—
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
As your chair, I will make every effort to move this along, as I have done tonight. I will ask for consent to group amendments throughout the evening.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
I'm told that if we vote on every single amendment or clause, we'll be here for just under 30 hours. I would hope that we not be here for 30 hours, but we'll see what happens.
NDP-4 was defeated.
Next is amendment LIB-61.
Liberal
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Mr. Chair, I would like a recorded vote, please.
(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Liberal
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Mr. Chair, I request a recorded vote, please.
(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Liberal
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Mr. Chair, I'm not sure if we actually had a vote on LIB-61, which should have been first.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
The vote on LIB-61 was defeated 6 to 5.
We'll move now to LIB-63.