Fisheries Committee on Nov. 16th, 2016

[The Chair, Liberal, Scott Simms]

This is a motion to adjourn. It is not debatable.

All those in favour of adjournment, please raise your hand.

(Motion negatived)

Seeing more people opposed, we're not going to adjourn.

However, seeing that there are bells.... Well actually, no, I'll get direction from the committee on this one.

The bells are ringing. My apologies, but when the bells are ringing, we have to seek unanimous consent to continue with the meeting. Otherwise we will continue after the vote has taken place.

Is there unanimous consent to continue the meeting right now, for about five to ten minutes? To be more precise, let's say 10 minutes. We have to deal with this first. The bells are ringing.

[Bernadette Jordan, Liberal, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

I'm sorry. Okay.

[The Chair, Liberal, Scott Simms]

I'm seeking unanimous consent to continue this meeting for up to 10 minutes. Does anybody have anything against that?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Liberal, Scott Simms]

That being said, we are going to continue this meeting for 10 minutes.

Mr. Donnelly, go ahead, please, quickly.

[Fin Donnelly, NDP, Port Moody—Coquitlam, BC]

In terms of the agenda, we are just going to discuss whether we come back and what's on the agenda. And if we do return, what that agenda would be. Is that correct?

[The Chair, Liberal, Scott Simms]

I understand that one of our witnesses has a short interjection. We could do that too within 10 minutes.

However, Ms. Jordan, you had....

Sorry, Mr. Donnelly, were you finished? No?

[Fin Donnelly, NDP, Port Moody—Coquitlam, BC]

No, I was just clarifying the agenda. You're suggesting that we're not going to do that and that we're going to hear from witnesses.

Is that right?

[The Chair, Liberal, Scott Simms]

It was asked of us that two witnesses will speak, the minister and somebody from the department. I was proposing that maybe we could hear from the department to start with, so we can get that out of the way before we come back.

[Bernadette Jordan, Liberal, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

I'd like to move that we suspend.

[The Chair, Liberal, Scott Simms]

You mean adjourn, right?

[Bernadette Jordan, Liberal, South Shore—St. Margarets, NS]

No, I mean suspend.

[The Chair, Liberal, Scott Simms]

All right, so we'll suspend for now, reconvening after the votes at a reasonable time.

(Motion agreed to)

That's done, so we'll see you in about 45 to 50 minutes.

Thank you.