Procedure and House Affairs Committee on May 1st, 2014

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

On Liberal-21, was that a recorded vote you called for?

[An hon. member]

Yes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

(Amendment negatived: nays 5; yeas 4 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Sorry, Ms. May, I didn't mention that you had one that was exactly like that, PV-32, but now that we've voted, it is also....

I apologize. It's already been voted on and defeated, but very quickly, go ahead.

[Elizabeth May, Green, Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC]

Mr. Chair, given the chance I would have agreed that I shouldn't talk to it. I just want to flag that there are amendments coming up that I really will want to talk to because they are quite distinct.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

There you go. I won't take off that time.

Amendment BQ-4, if that was in your next stack, was done last night, but I have G-8, which should be next.

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

I have NDP-36.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Yes, I have G-8 further down. Everybody, dig down to G-8.

Mr. Lukiwski, is that where we're at?

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

Are we going to G-8 now?

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Yes.

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

That's okay. I just wanted to know why we're not going to NDP-36.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

It's because it was in the list that way.

Mr. Scott.

[Craig Scott, NDP, Toronto—Danforth, ON]

That's a good reason.

Are we coming back to NDP-36, LIB-22, and PV-33?

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Apparently they are all connected. If G-8 is adopted, BQ-4, which is already gone, NDP-36, LIB-32, and PV-33 can't be proceeded with.

[Craig Scott, NDP, Toronto—Danforth, ON]

It was supposed to be dealt with after.

[A voice]

No, it comes first in the bill.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

According to here, it comes first in the bill.

[Craig Scott, NDP, Toronto—Danforth, ON]

I will have to defer to Mr. MacPherson, who knows this intimately.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Thank you.

Mr. Lukiwski, if you went with G-8, with the rest of you knowing that NDP-36, LIB-22, and PV-33 would also not be able to move forward if G-8 passes....

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

Thanks, Chair, and I do move this.

It's part of the package on attesting for residence. The amendment requires poll workers to warn individuals and the co-signer as well who take an oath when registering on polling days. We talked about this fairly extensively last night, and the warning would be just to inform those who are requesting and co-signing the oath that by misrepresenting yourself and by lying as to either your identification or particularly your residence, you could be subject to severe sanctions under the Elections Act. That's what this deals with.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

That's great. Are there questions?

Madame Latendresse on amendment G-8....

[Alexandrine Latendresse, NDP, Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC]

I would just like to point out that there is an error in subsection 161(1). I do not think the English provision is supposed to be replaced with a provision in French.

Tom, have you seen it?

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

Yes.

[Alexandrine Latendresse, NDP, Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC]

Look at proposed section 161 in English. It's in French, so unless you want to have a section in French in your English version of the law—it's

amendment G-8.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Line 161 on your amendment, on the English side, is written in French.