Correct.
Evidence of meeting #3 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was meeting.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #3 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was meeting.
A recording is available from Parliament.
6:15 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Robert Gordon Kitchen
Okay. Do we have a consensus?
As you have the floor, I guess I'm asking the committee if there's consensus to adjourn the debate.
Mr. Green, go ahead.
6:15 p.m.
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
I don't think we have consensus to adjourn this. I'm wondering how many people were remaining to speak to this motion.
6:15 p.m.
Conservative
6:15 p.m.
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
You're suggesting that by adjourning the amendment, we adjourn the whole motion.
6:15 p.m.
Conservative
6:15 p.m.
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
Then do we call the question? If you're saying that we're adjourning the debate, it would just be—
6:15 p.m.
Conservative
6:15 p.m.
The Clerk
When a committee is dealing with an amendment to a motion and it adjourns debate on the amendment, what it essentially means is that you cannot take up the main motion again. The reason is that the amendment supersedes it. You must deal with the amendment first. Now you can deal with the amendment either by adopting it, defeating it or adjourning the debate on it.
In this case, Mr. MacKinnon has moved that we adjourn the debate on the amendment. What that essentially means is that we cannot continue with the discussion in general of either your motion or the amendment, until such time as the committee wishes to bring it up at a future time, provided the motion is agreed to.
6:15 p.m.
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
With that, Mr. Chair, I'm going to ask your indulgence so that I'm clear in my mind procedurally.
If the debate is adjourned, is the motion still active, or would I have the ability to resubmit a motion that might be broken up into two parts for the purpose of having that addressed at some future time?
6:20 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Robert Gordon Kitchen
The motion is still active and can be picked up at any time.
6:20 p.m.
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
All right. I can't speak to this. I respect that.
I don't support the adjournment, because there's something I want to say about it.
6:20 p.m.
Conservative
6:20 p.m.
The Clerk
The motion is to adjourn the debate.
(Motion agreed to: yeas 7; nays 3)
6:20 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Robert Gordon Kitchen
Thank you, Mr. Clerk.
We will adjourn the debate on this motion.
Mr. Drouin, go ahead.
6:20 p.m.
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
Mr. Chair, can I make a suggestion and move a motion to adjourn, or seek my colleagues' preference to move to subcommittee so we can deal with the four motions we have already adopted and start scheduling meetings?
6:20 p.m.
Conservative
6:20 p.m.
The Clerk
The motion is that the meeting be now adjourned.
(Motion agreed to: yeas 9; nays 1)
6:20 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Robert Gordon Kitchen
Before we adjourn and leave the room, I just want to say that, as this meeting is complete, the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure will now meet.
When I adjourn this meeting, the technical staff will end the meeting in Zoom. This means that members of the subcommittee cannot remain logged into this meeting. In order to participate in the subcommittee meeting, they must reconvene. Members of the subcommittee will have to sign into the meeting after this meeting is adjourned, using the password and the link sent to them by the clerk earlier today.
With that said, we are now adjourned.