Government Operations Committee on March 22nd, 2021

[The Chair, Conservative, Robert Gordon Kitchen]

I have already called for the vote, but I will have the clerk reread the motion you voted on.

[Francis Drouin, Liberal, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON]

You called for unanimous consent, so I need to know. Obviously another member was confused.

[The Clerk]

The text of the motion moved by Mr. McCauley was “That the Committee recall officials from the Treasury Board Secretariat to discuss the documents they provided regarding COVID-19 spending, and that the meeting be held no later than April 23, 2021.”

Thank you.

[The Chair, Conservative, Robert Gordon Kitchen]

Thank you, Mr. Clerk.

(Motion agreed to)

Mr. Weiler, you have five minutes.

[Patrick Weiler, Liberal, West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I am happy to cede my time so that we can let the witnesses go and move to committee business.

Thanks.

[The Chair, Conservative, Robert Gordon Kitchen]

Thank you.

With that said, we have no more questions.

I would like to thank the witnesses, Ms. Evans, Mr. Krumins, Mr. Mills and Mr. Dorion, for their presentations and their answers, and for bearing with us today with the issues we've had.

I would appreciate it if, where questions were asked and where you indicated you would provide that in writing to the committee, you do so at your earliest convenience so that we can get that to the committee quickly. Thank you very much.

The witnesses can go now.

With that said, the public portion of the meeting is now complete for the committee. We'll now proceed to the in camera portion.

When I suspend this meeting the technical staff will end this part of the meeting in Zoom, so you will have to go to your computers and re-enter with what was sent to you by the clerk. You should all have that.

With that said, we will suspend temporarily.

[Francis Drouin, Liberal, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON]

Mr. Chair, I'm sorry. My hand was up.

[The Chair, Conservative, Robert Gordon Kitchen]

I apologize. We will allow that to happen.

[Francis Drouin, Liberal, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON]

It's just with regard to the way we just proceeded. You didn't say clearly whether or not that particular motion was adopted unanimously. For records that go into this committee, when somebody wants to look at this, it's not clear whether or not the motion was adopted unanimously, because we're not there.

I gave a thumbs-up, but you haven't officially said that the motion was adopted unanimously. Just for the record of Parliament, I want to make sure that if we're going to proceed like this.... It just gets confusing. That's all.

[The Chair, Conservative, Robert Gordon Kitchen]

The minutes will indicate that it was agreed to rather than that it was unanimous. I did ask on the vote to indicate that I was looking for a thumbs-down, and I did not see any. Not seeing any, I decided that everyone was in favour of it and that therefore it was carried.

We'll see you in a couple of minutes when we go in camera.

[Proceedings continue in camera]