Evidence of meeting #4 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was study.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
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Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
Yes, I know that some were not here, but most of it was because of translation.
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Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
But you don't have unanimous consent, I'm just saying right now, to conclude at 1 p.m.
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Liberal
Serge Cormier Liberal Acadie—Bathurst, NB
On a point of order, Mr. Chair, first of all, the meeting was not delayed by 30 minutes. I think it was more like five or 10 minutes, or maybe 15 minutes at the most. I'm not in Ottawa, but I'm pretty sure there were some members maybe not on time, just as Mr. Perkins said.
We'd better check to see how much time we were delayed. It wasn't 30 minutes, for sure.
12:35 p.m.
Conservative
Mel Arnold Conservative North Okanagan—Shuswap, BC
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I've almost lost my train of thought here.
On the order of precedence for these studies to be done and the study motion put forward by Mr. Zimmer, I believe this may be the third time this motion has been put forward. It's been delayed by elections and other procedures that have taken place. It's high time that this motion was studied. It's been identified in multiple parliaments now. I'd like to make sure that it is recognized as a priority.
Thank you.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
Thank you.
There are no further hands up on the motion by Mr. Perkins on the order in which he would like to see us continue with studies once we get through the ones that we now have assigned to the calendar.
12:40 p.m.
Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
I do have the other point of order motion on the floor without unanimous consent.
12:40 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
We have to have a vote to extend. I understand that, because normally I would ask for unanimous consent to extend the meeting, but first I'll ask the clerk if we know if staff and officials are available.
To your question, Mr. Perkins, you can't propose a motion on a point of order. When the clock hits one o'clock, you can then propose a motion to ask for unanimous consent to extend.
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Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
My understanding is you can raise a point of order and remove unanimous consent to adjourn at any time during the meeting.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
It's still a motion. You can't raise a motion, from my understanding, on a point of order.
I read that this past week in that big, fat green book that we're all told to study.
Mr. Small.
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
Anyway, we'll go to the motion we were dealing with on the actual proposed schedule.
Tina, would you do a recorded division, please?
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The Clerk
Could I just confirm, please, that this is the motion by Mr. Perkins to add—
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An hon. member
On the order.
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The Clerk
On the order, so pinnipeds, foreign ownership, safety at sea and then small craft harbours. Is that correct?
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Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
It was pinnipeds, corporate concentration and foreign ownership, IUU, safety at sea and then small craft harbours.
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The Clerk
Thank you for clarifying.
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Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
We could, in the order of collegiality, add, if you wanted to, the previous motion on climate change that was proposed by the government at the end of that.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
That's doing an amendment. Are you doing an amendment? No. Okay.
(Motion negatived: nays 7; yeas 4 [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Who wants to go next?
Mr. Zimmer.
12:45 p.m.
Conservative
Bob Zimmer Conservative Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, BC
Getting back to my original question, I would like the clerk to recognize that at some point this study will be on the calendar.
That's all I need to hear. I'm not asking for dates, as in the previous motion. It would have been great if it had passed, but just for certainty. You did mention the first part of the schedule. The motions are passed to study these different topics. Is that part of the calendar?
