Foreign Affairs Committee on June 8th, 2010

[Peter Goldring, Conservative, Edmonton East, AB]

I object.

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

You should be focused on what your argument is against the motion, please.

[Peter Goldring, Conservative, Edmonton East, AB]

If you will allow me, I will—

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

We have--

[The Chair, Conservative, Dean Allison]

Thank you, Mr. Dewar.

Mr. Goldring.

[Peter Goldring, Conservative, Edmonton East, AB]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

One of the points that I did raise, and I spoke to him right afterwards, and one of the points of relevancy was that I know the bill is constructed to basically bring forward complaints that happen in the field, so to speak, but when I spoke with the presenter I asked him how many complaints he deals with, how many complaints has he dealt with in his own mining operation over five years, and I certainly think that this should be relevant to the issue of the bill here, because—

[The Chair, Conservative, Dean Allison]

Mr. Goldring, I've got another point of order.

[John McKay, Liberal, Scarborough—Guildwood, ON]

Mr. Chair, this looks like a filibuster, smells like a filibuster, feels like a filibuster, probably is a filibuster, so I would adopt your view, Mr. Chair, that we terminate this meeting without prejudice to my rights to submit amendments in the House. If we could proceed on that basis, then we would all save ourselves 15 minutes of the loquacious tones of Mr. Goldring.

[An hon. member]

That's what you do in Parliament.

[John McKay, Liberal, Scarborough—Guildwood, ON]

Oh, we have more loquacious—

[The Chair, Conservative, Dean Allison]

Okay, hold on a second.

Yes.

[Jim Abbott, Conservative, Kootenay—Columbia, BC]

On the same point of order, does that mean that Mr. McKay is withdrawing his motion?

[John McKay, Liberal, Scarborough—Guildwood, ON]

I don't have to withdraw my motion, you—

[The Chair, Conservative, Dean Allison]

Nothing's been done. His motion's before us, but it doesn't seem like we're going to be voting on it.

[James Lunney, Conservative, Nanaimo—Alberni, BC]

I'd like to speak to the point of order.

[John McKay, Liberal, Scarborough—Guildwood, ON]

Which point of order?

[James Lunney, Conservative, Nanaimo—Alberni, BC]

Well, you've raised—

[The Chair, Conservative, Dean Allison]

Okay.

[James Lunney, Conservative, Nanaimo—Alberni, BC]

McKay's.

As recently as the last committee meeting, we had a discussion about what our agenda would be. Mr. McKay agreed to allow the bill to be reported without amendment and without clause-by-clause. That was as recently as the last committee meeting. So now all of a sudden—

[John McKay, Liberal, Scarborough—Guildwood, ON]

Ms. DePape couldn't find any witnesses.

[The Chair, Conservative, Dean Allison]

Just one second.

I just need to remind the members that we were in camera at the last meeting. As much as we'd like to talk about these things—

[Jim Abbott, Conservative, Kootenay—Columbia, BC]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Conservative, Dean Allison]

—we really can't talk about these things. So for the benefit....

[James Lunney, Conservative, Nanaimo—Alberni, BC]

Anyway, the point is that it's disrespectful—

[The Chair, Conservative, Dean Allison]

Anyway, we had an agenda here that won't happen, it would appear.