Government Operations Committee on April 1st, 2008

[James Moore, Conservative, Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC]

Can I have your motion in both official languages? Do you have it ready?

[Raymonde Folco, Liberal, Laval—Les Îles, QC]

Yes.

[James Moore, Conservative, Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC]

Where? Have you tabled it with the clerk?

[Raymonde Folco, Liberal, Laval—Les Îles, QC]

I'm tabling it now.

[Mark Holland, Liberal, Ajax—Pickering, ON]

Hold on. The chair has made a decision. You either challenge the chair or we move on.

[James Moore, Conservative, Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC]

What's that?

[Mark Holland, Liberal, Ajax—Pickering, ON]

This is not debatable.

Chair, on a point of order—

[Raymonde Folco, Liberal, Laval—Les Îles, QC]

It's in both official languages.

[James Moore, Conservative, Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC]

Oh, you've scribbled it out on a scratch pad.

[Raymonde Folco, Liberal, Laval—Les Îles, QC]

Oh, I scribbled it out? It's still written. The pen—

[James Moore, Conservative, Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC]

I tabled this a month and a half ago.

[The Chair, Liberal, Diane Marleau]

Enough already. The chair recognizes a member, then a member moves a motion.

I have not recognized you; therefore, your motion was not moved. I have recognized Madame Folco, and she was in the process of speaking and moving a motion.

[James Moore, Conservative, Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC]

Yes. You're a good Liberal, Madam Chair. You're a good Liberal.

[The Chair, Liberal, Diane Marleau]

After she finishes, I will go to yours, if that's what will make everyone happy.

[James Moore, Conservative, Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC]

You're a good Liberal, Madam Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Diane Marleau]

Yes, I am. And I don't play games.

Madame Folco.

[Raymonde Folco, Liberal, Laval—Les Îles, QC]

Thank you, Madam Chair. Having just read the French version of my motion, I would now like to read it in English.

That Minister Baird provide a list of the Treasury Board meetings where the light rail project in Ottawa was discussed, with the dates of those meetings, the names of the participants in those meetings, and where they took place....

This is simply a follow-up to a question I had actually asked the minister when he was present. I just want to make sure that the details are clear enough in terms of what I was asking regarding Treasury Board meetings.

[The Chair, Liberal, Diane Marleau]

On Madame Folco's motion, Mr. Holland.

[Mark Holland, Liberal, Ajax—Pickering, ON]

Perhaps I can make the friendly amendment that we include the four Justice lawyers who were referenced. We'd be given the names of the people from Justice from whom he received advice.

[Raymonde Folco, Liberal, Laval—Les Îles, QC]

So it would be the four from Justice.

Yes, I quite accept this friendly amendment.

[The Chair, Liberal, Diane Marleau]

Is that a friendly amendment?

[Mark Holland, Liberal, Ajax—Pickering, ON]

It's seeking the Justice lawyers referenced by Minister Baird as the people who gave him advice on the clause he referenced, clause 6.1.7.

[The Chair, Liberal, Diane Marleau]

Is there any debate on this? No?

All those in favour of this motion--

[James Moore, Conservative, Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam, BC]

No debate?

[The Chair, Liberal, Diane Marleau]

You wish to speak. Okay. You're usually pretty fast, Mr. Moore.