Evidence of meeting #1 for Health in the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was clerk.
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Liberal
Liberal
Maggie Chi Liberal Don Valley North, ON
This motion is on whips' access to digital binders:
That the clerk of the committee be authorized to grant access to the committee's digital binder to the offices of the whips of each recognized party.
Liberal
Liberal
Maggie Chi Liberal Don Valley North, ON
The next motion is on maintenance of order and decorum:
That during meetings, the Chair, if necessary, uses her prerogative to suspend the meeting to maintain the order and decorum necessary to ensure the application of the House of Commons' policies on workplace health and safety.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
Is there any discussion?
(Motion agreed to)
We have finished with the routine motions. We have had an agreement that we will discuss Mr. Powlowski's motion at another meeting where we can discuss basically what the definitions are, because I think that was what was in question here.
Dan, go ahead.
Conservative
Dan Mazier Conservative Riding Mountain, MB
I just want to bring something to the committee's attention.
In the last Parliament, there was a report that didn't make the final stages for the committee to receive an answer back from the government. The report was on achieving better outcomes for breast cancer screening. What I have is a motion, and I'm seeking unanimous consent from the committee to request that the government table the report and then the chair present the report to the House so Canadians can actually hear what the government has to say about this important subject.
Liberal
Liberal
Marcus Powlowski Liberal Thunder Bay—Rainy River, ON
To clarify, what is the report you're looking for?
Conservative
Dan Mazier Conservative Riding Mountain, MB
I'll read the motion:
That, given that committee members, staff, the clerk, analysts, and witnesses worked hard to produce the report entitled “Saving More Lives: Improving Guidance, Increasing Access and Achieving Better Outcomes in Breast Cancer Screening” during the first session of the 44th Parliament, and given that the government did not table a response because of the prorogation of Parliament, the committee deem that it has undertaken and completed a study on “Saving More Lives: Improving Guidance, Increasing Access and Achieving Better Outcomes in Breast Cancer Screening” pursuant to Standing Order 108, and that it adopt that report as a report from this committee;
That, pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee request the government to table a comprehensive response to the report, that supplementary or dissenting reports that accompanied the report in the previous session of Parliament be tabled with the main report and that the Chair present the report to the House.
That's the motion. It's basically a follow-up from the last session.
Bloc
Luc Thériault Bloc Montcalm, QC
The motion should be distributed. I know that there's a French version. This would also give the interpreters the chance to read it in French exactly as it's written. We should get into the habit of ensuring that, when a motion is introduced, committee members can have it on paper.
I suggest that the meeting be suspended for five minutes in order to pass around these documents.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
I will suspend while we send the motion forward, because I don't have it. I don't think anybody else seems to.
We are suspended.
Liberal
Liberal
Doug Eyolfson Liberal Winnipeg West, MB
This sounds like an important topic. We're just splitting hairs because we have to be in all this really technical language. It had been tabled, so I think the motion is to to retable it. I think that's a really minor amendment, but I agree that this is important, and I would support it.
Conservative
Dan Mazier Conservative Riding Mountain, MB
I'm looking for unanimous consent.
Basically, the committee did do a lot of great work. There's a lot of important information here that Canadians deserve to know, especially those with breast cancer. It is a very important subject, and I think we all have a duty to report back to Canadians on it. The government needs to respond to what this committee found.
Liberal
Doug Eyolfson Liberal Winnipeg West, MB
Absolutely, yes. As I say, I was just using the language to retable it. Otherwise, if we send it in with that, then someone will say, “Well, it was tabled.” It just prevents confusion down the line.
However, yes, I agree. It should be tabled, and we should bring this forward. I support that.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
I think it was tabled in the House on December 14, 2024. I think it would be a good idea to retable it so that we can discuss it again, or do whatever you want to do, but it's already been tabled in the House, so your question is to get a government response. Is that your question?