Health Committee on Nov. 22nd, 2022

[Todd Doherty, Conservative, Cariboo—Prince George, BC]

Mr. Chair, if I can, I have no problem with changing my amendment—that's what we're working off—to “biweekly”. I will agree with Mr. Davies that the information we heard was there were over 800 medicines that we are lacking in, 22 of them were of a very serious nature. Again, we don't want to cause panic, but we do want to show the government is doing what they say they're doing.

With that—I have no problem, again, I'll defer to my colleagues who are around the table there—to make a change to “biweekly”, if I can amend my own amendment.

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

Thank you, Mr. Doherty.

Ms. Goodridge, please.

[Laila Goodridge, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Cold Lake, AB]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Considering it was my subamendment, I believe I have the ability to amend a subamendment that I made. So I'm going to pull my subamendment and create a new subamendment, and pull “weekly” and put “biweekly”, so every two weeks.

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

Okay. Just procedurally—

[Laila Goodridge, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Cold Lake, AB]

I am removing—

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

—in order to withdraw your subamendment, you will require unanimous consent. I don't think there will be any problem to get it.

Do we all agree that Ms. Goodridge can withdraw her subamendment?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

(Subamendment withdrawn)

Okay. So the subamendment is withdrawn, and now you wish to put another subamendment on.

[Laila Goodridge, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Cold Lake, AB]

Yes.

I would like to subamend it to “biweekly”, meaning every two weeks.

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

Very good. We got there. That's in order.

Yes, Mr. Liepert.

[Ron Liepert, Conservative, Calgary Signal Hill, AB]

Just for clarification, Wikipedia describes “biweekly” as either twice in a week or every other week.

So if we change it to biweekly, we are not necessarily making it very clear.

[Laila Goodridge, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Cold Lake, AB]

Okay. Make it “every 14 days”.

[Ron Liepert, Conservative, Calgary Signal Hill, AB]

Good.

[Some hon. members]

Oh, oh!

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

I think we have consensus to use “every 14 days” as the subamendment.

Are we now ready for the question?

[An hon. member]

Yes.

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

The question is on the subamendment that the amendments put forward by Mr. van Koeverden be changed such that the tabling of the information in question will happen every 14 days.

Is it the will of the committee to adopt the subamendment?

I see consensus.

(Subamendment agreed to)

We're now on the amendments by Mr. van Koeverden to the main motion. You have them in front of you.

Are we in favour of the amendment proposed by Mr. van Koeverden? Is it the will of the committee to adopt that amendment?

I see consensus.

(Amendment as amended agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Is it the will of the committee to adopt the motion as amended and subamended?

Yes, Ms. Goodridge.

[Laila Goodridge, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Cold Lake, AB]

I just want to thank all members for supporting this idea and allowing this to come forward. I think this is so important. I've talked to hundreds of Canadian parents all across the country, and this has been a real concern. They want to see progress. They want information so that they're not in the black-hole void of social media.

I'd like to thank all members from all parties for listening to this mom, realizing that this is a serious concern, and bringing this forward.

Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

Yes, Mr. Jeneroux.

[Matt Jeneroux, Conservative, Edmonton Riverbend, AB]

Can we get a recorded vote?

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

Mr. Clerk, please proceed with a recorded vote on the motion as amended and subamended.

(Motion as amended agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

[The Chair, Liberal, Sean Casey]

Is it the will of the committee to adjourn the meeting?

It is not.

Go ahead, Mr. van Koeverden.

[Adam van Koeverden, Liberal, Milton, ON]

Just quickly, can I get a show of hands indicating support to have both ministers appear for one hour at the same time on Tuesday so that we can do supplementary estimates as we discussed? It's one hour for both and then we can also do a private member's bill on Tuesday.

[An hon. member]

Yes.

[An hon. member]

Agreed.