Evidence of meeting #6 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 40th Parliament, 3rd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was witness.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Well, we were going to check all of that, because you can't just lump them together and then hope that they'll come. We had to call and get availability for them all, and that was the discussion. And then we broke.
NDP
Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB
Okay. We broke and we're back and we're living in a Parliament in which, week after week, things could change—
NDP
Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB
--and it's changing right now.
For those reasons, I'm putting a motion to adjourn the meeting and we can come back to it another time.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Okay.
I'll take that motion, and that's fine. I'll remind you that I'm not here Thursday.
Would the meeting then be the following Tuesday--
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
--to finish the scheduling of the witness list and do the budgeting for it?
Conservative
Bloc
Michel Guimond Bloc Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC
On the motion, okay.
I do not know if Mr. Godin would—
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
The motion to adjourn is not debatable.
You know I love a good debate as much as the next guy.
I call the vote on....
Mr. Godin, would you like to say something?
NDP
Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB
I think we still could talk on that if you don't cut it off.
But maybe what I'm looking at is to send it to the steering committee, and we'll have a discussion at the steering committee to try to help this committee.
Would you agree to that?
Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
Do you want to amend the motion then? Because your motion was just to adjourn.
NDP
Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB
Yes, I'll amend my motion saying I'm putting a motion to adjourn and then to have the steering committee meet on this issue.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
I think you've got to do it the other way. You've got to move to send it to the steering committee and leave the adjourn part off.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
All right.
That said, if you send it to the steering committee on Thursday, I'm also a member of that committee, and I'm not here. Someone can--
Liberal
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
There's no meeting on Thursday. On the Tuesday we're back from the break, the steering committee will meet during this time.
There's also been a request for private members' business to meet on April 22. I think that's after that, though, so we're okay.
So we're okay? All right?
Conservative
