Evidence of meeting #21 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was ministers.
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Bloc
Louise Thibault Bloc Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC
I would rather not make an issue of it, but I did send mine very early this morning.
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NDP
Peggy Nash NDP Parkdale—High Park, ON
I'm confused. We have a motion here that is tabled and translated and seems to get to the same point. Can we not just deal with that motion?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Diane Marleau
Well, we could, but we have another motion. Essentially the motions are similar, so maybe what we can do is just marry the two.
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NDP
Peggy Nash NDP Parkdale—High Park, ON
Maybe Mr. Bains could agree that we would just deal with Madame Thibault's motion, because we all have a copy and it's translated. I'm just thinking in terms of moving the work of the committee along.
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Liberal
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Liberal
Navdeep Bains Liberal Mississauga—Brampton South, ON
I think the essence is more or less the same, but I do want to write mine out to make sure there's nothing missing. So if you could you bear with me, I want to make sure that we capture the essence of what I said before and to make sure that we're also complementing the motion presented by the Bloc.
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Liberal
Raymond Bonin Liberal Nickel Belt, ON
Madam Chair, may I suggest that we deal with Ms. Nash’s Notice of Motion? We can at least settle that. It is a formality that can be settled fairly quickly.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Diane Marleau
Okay.
While we're waiting for the translation of the other motion we can deal with Madam Nash's notice of motion, which is:
That the Committee report to the House the following:
That a Message be sent to the Senate inviting their Honours to give leave to the Minister and Senator Michael Fortier to appear before the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates in the next two weeks to answer questions concerning procurement policy changes.
We need 48 hours for this one. If you wish to accept it, we can debate it now.
It must be unanimous.
Is it unanimous that we deal with this one now?
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Conservative
James Moore Conservative Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC
On this, Madam Chair, Minister Fortier is more than prepared to come before the committee. In fact, if my colleagues will look at the schedule, he is in fact scheduled to come before the committee.
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Conservative
James Moore Conservative Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC
Correct.
So this is frankly.... Can I finish?
Minister Fortier--
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Diane Marleau
Are we accepting to debate this motion? If we're accepting to debate this motion, say yes.
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Conservative
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Liberal
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Conservative
James Moore Conservative Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC
Mine was a point of order, Madam Chair.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Diane Marleau
You are talking about the substance of the motion, which isn't the same.
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Conservative
James Moore Conservative Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC
No. As a matter of fact, no, it was a point of clarification to Madam Nash that Minister Fortier is scheduled to come before this committee. In fact, he will be here in, I believe, a little more than two weeks--16 days, not 14 days--which makes this motion, I think, redundant and irrelevant.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Diane Marleau
This is a discussion of this motion.
First of all, Monsieur Bonin, for a point of order, and then Madam Nash.
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Liberal
Raymond Bonin Liberal Nickel Belt, ON
On a notice of motion, Madam Chair, the chair accepts it, and we discuss it when we have a meeting. There's no debate and no discussion.
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Liberal