Finance Committee on March 6th, 2017

[Francesco Sorbara, Liberal, Vaughan—Woodbridge, ON]

No, I said I was going to stop speaking.

[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.

[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—

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

Go ahead, Mr. Albas.

[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....

[Ron Liepert, Conservative, Calgary Signal Hill, AB]

At 5:30 it should be done.

[Jennifer O'Connell, Liberal, Pickering—Uxbridge, ON]

We went through this before and argued the opposite

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

I'll ask the clerk to explain this, if she could, Mr. Albas.

[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.

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

Unless there's a call to a vote, and then that's a different story.

[The Clerk]

Yes.

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

I don't see anybody asking that we adjourn. Do you want to vote?

[Ron Liepert, Conservative, Calgary Signal Hill, AB]

I'm going to ask that we adjourn.

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

You're asking that we adjourn. Okay, we'll vote on that.

[Ron Liepert, Conservative, Calgary Signal Hill, AB]

I'll ask for a recorded vote, please.

[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—

[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.

[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.

[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—

[Jennifer O'Connell, Liberal, Pickering—Uxbridge, ON]

Adjourn.

[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.

[Jennifer O'Connell, Liberal, Pickering—Uxbridge, ON]

Put me on that list.

[Ron Liepert, Conservative, Calgary Signal Hill, AB]

Well, that's good.

[Jennifer O'Connell, Liberal, Pickering—Uxbridge, ON]

I'm on that list.

[An hon. member]

Okay, then I'll go on it, too.