Government Operations Committee on Feb. 14th, 2024

[The Chair, Conservative, Kelly McCauley]

We're sending it out again.

Mr. Sousa, quite literally it's your amendment in its entirety, with, added at the end, “that the committee report this request and these findings to the House”. Otherwise it is your amendment.

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

Chair, I think we're ready. Are we not suspended? I think we're ready to proceed.

[Charles Sousa, Liberal, Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON]

Could we have two minutes?

[The Chair, Conservative, Kelly McCauley]

We've read it repeatedly to you, Mr. Sousa. I'm not sure how much more you need, but make it two minutes maximum, please.

We're back. Go ahead on Mr. Genuis's subamendment.

[Charles Sousa, Liberal, Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON]

Yes. Right now we're at Mr. Genuis's subamendment to Mrs. Vignola's amendment. Is that right, and we're adding to it now?

[The Chair, Conservative, Kelly McCauley]

We are now on Mrs. Vignola's subamendment.

[Charles Sousa, Liberal, Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON]

Okay, so now we're using Mr. Genuis's subamendment.

[The Chair, Conservative, Kelly McCauley]

It's purely that one final line added to your amendment in its entirety.

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

Sorry, I have a point of order, Chair.

I think you misspoke a little, so just to avoid confusion, we voted in favour of Ms. Vignola's amendment.

[The Chair, Conservative, Kelly McCauley]

I'm sorry. Yes. I apologize.

[Charles Sousa, Liberal, Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON]

We voted in favour, but Mr. Genuis is now amending that amendment, and I'd like to add to Mr. Genuis's—

[The Chair, Conservative, Kelly McCauley]

No, we're not amending Mrs. Vignola's amendment. We voted it in, so we're back to your amendment. Mr. Genuis is now—

[Charles Sousa, Liberal, Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON]

—making another amendment.

[The Chair, Conservative, Kelly McCauley]

That's right, so we're debating his amendment.

[Charles Sousa, Liberal, Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON]

In debate on Mr. Genuis's amendment, I'd like to add to it, so keep it but add a portion to it.

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

Just as a point of order, you can't sub a sub, but you can—

[Charles Sousa, Liberal, Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON]

I'm not trying to sub, I just want to suggest—

[The Chair, Conservative, Kelly McCauley]

You would have to offer a subamendment to that subamendment.

[Charles Sousa, Liberal, Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON]

That's what I'm trying to do, yes.

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

You need to adopt. There is a process whereby you need to adopt—

[Charles Sousa, Liberal, Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON]

I can't adopt it without the subamendment—

[The Chair, Conservative, Kelly McCauley]

We're dealing with the subamendment—

[Charles Sousa, Liberal, Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON]

—and I want to adopt it with the add-on, if I could add to it, whatever process that requires.

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

That's not allowed in the rules, though. You can't sub a sub.

[Charles Sousa, Liberal, Mississauga—Lakeshore, ON]

Yours is not a sub, yours is an amendment to—