Health Committee on June 15th, 2011

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

This would be just a slight modification.

The recommendation means that there would be two Conservative questions back to back. Usually it flips back and forth. So we could, on the second round, just flip it around again. Otherwise, we go from four, which is Conservative, and then to five, which is Conservative.

I'm not suggesting that we change the overall balance. We still have the Liberal as the last one.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

You're saying that in the second round it's NDP, then Conservative.

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Yes. Otherwise you have two Conservative questions back to back, and we don't usually have that.

[Hedy Fry, Liberal, Vancouver Centre, BC]

So it would be NDP, Conservative, NDP, Conservative, Liberal on that subsequent round.

[Colin Carrie, Conservative, Oshawa, ON]

Either way, if we're looking at...we're going to have a back-to-back question for the NDP.

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Oh, okay.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

So are you saying leave it the way it is because we're going to have a back-to-back question, or...?

Mr. Strahl.

[Mark Strahl, Conservative, Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon, BC]

I was trying to get clarification from Ms. Davies on what her proposed second round looked like.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Ms. Davies, what were you saying?

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

We'd rather have it as it was before, so that you still get two back-to-back questions, as opposed to where you have it now, four and five.

[Colin Carrie, Conservative, Oshawa, ON]

So you want us to have the back-to-back at the end, before the Liberal?

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Yes. I think it's consistent with previous practice.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Just to clarify, then, could you read it out?

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Yes.

I would propose, or amend, if we're doing it that way--

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

The first round; do it first.

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

It would be NDP, Conservative, Liberal, Conservative, and then NDP, Conservative, NDP, Conservative, NDP, and then Conservative, and then Liberal...or two Conservatives there.

[Colin Carrie, Conservative, Oshawa, ON]

So it would be Conservative, Conservative, Liberal.

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Conservative, Conservative, Liberal.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

So that's where you want the back-to-back?

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Yes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Okay.

To go over it again, to clarify, the last suggestion is NDP, Conservative, Liberal, Conservative, first round; NDP, Conservative, NDP, Conservative, NDP, Conservative, Conservative, Liberal.

Is that correct, Ms. Davies?

[Libby Davies, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Bravo.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Is there discussion?

[Colin Carrie, Conservative, Oshawa, ON]

We just want to make sure that all our members get the opportunity to speak, right? Can you just give us a moment?

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Yes.

Can you give your suggestion, Dr. Carrie?

It all works?