Evidence of meeting #74 for Finance in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was report.
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Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
Oh, you're adjourning your discussion.
Mr. Liepert, to close off on this debate, we don't have to adjourn at 5:30 unless there's a majority who want to do so. If you want to close the debate, we can vote.
Conservative
Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB
I suggest you put it to a vote if you want to have an adjournment, because it is 5:30. If not—
Conservative
Dan Albas Conservative Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, BC
To be clear, it seems to be the practice of most committees that unless there's unanimous consent that we cut off....
Liberal
Jennifer O'Connell Liberal Pickering—Uxbridge, ON
We went through this before and argued the opposite
Liberal
The Clerk of the Committee Ms. Suzie Cadieux
Typically when there's implied consent from the committee to adjourn at the regular time, we do, but it doesn't require unanimous consent. It's really the majority of the committee that decides if they will adjourn. Usually it's implied, because we go by the regular time slots. If it's implied, we can adjourn.
Liberal
Liberal
Conservative
Liberal
Conservative
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
Yes.
The motion is to adjourn the committee.
(Motion negatived: nays 6; yeas 3 [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Mr. Liepert, you have the floor. We're calling the motion on the—
Liberal
Greg Fergus Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC
Mr. Chair, given that we've gone beyond the regular time, we might want to release the guests from the Canada Revenue Agency.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
We can do that.
I want to thank Mr. Gallivan, Mr. Huppé, and others for coming. We have had an interesting discussion, but not a lot of it on CRA estimates.
Thank you for coming, and you are released.
Go ahead, Mr. Liepert.
Conservative
Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Obviously our colleagues across the way do not want to talk about this issue any longer, so we will—
Conservative
Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB
—end up bringing it to a vote.
Mr. Chair, I have the floor. The member had every opportunity to get up and speak and did not.
