Procedure and House Affairs Committee on May 1st, 2014

Evidence of meeting #37 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site.) The winning word was move.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-23, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to certain Acts

MPs speaking

Alexandrine Latendresse

Also speaking

Marc Chénier Senior Officer and Counsel, Privy Council Office

Natasha Kim Director, Democratic Reform, Privy Council Office

Mike MacPherson Legislative Clerk, House of Commons

5:25 p.m.

NDP

Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC

Can we do that again with another NDP amendment?

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

We are on Liberal-37.

5:25 p.m.

NDP

Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC

A recorded vote, please....

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

May 1st, 2014 / 5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

Now we're on PV-63.

5:25 p.m.

An hon. member

A recorded vote, please....

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

(Amendment negatived: nays 6; yeas 3 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Government-28, all those in favour?

5:25 p.m.

NDP

Peter Julian NDP Burnaby—New Westminster, BC

Recorded vote, please....

(Amendment agreed to: yeas 9; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

We're going to NDP-62, which is identical to G-29. We'll have a recorded vote on it, but whatever happens to one, happens to the other.

(Amendment agreed to: yeas 9; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

I have G-30 next.

(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Now we have a recorded vote on NDP-63.

(Amendment agreed to: yeas 9; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Wow, what a friendly group.

I say that we're at LIB-38, which is identical to NDP-63. Isn't that what we just did?

5:25 p.m.

A voice

Yes.

5:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

So LIB-38 has been passed.

PV-64 is also identical to it, so we won't vote on it.

I'm at amendment G-31. No. Give me just a second.

We're at clause 86 as amended, and I would like to know if you're all in favour of that.

(Clause 86 as amended agreed to)

We're on amendment BQ-9.

(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])

We're on amendment BQ-10.

(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])

(Clause 87 agreed to on division)

We're on amendment PV-65, and we'll have a recorded vote.

(Amendment negatived: nays 6; yeas 3 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

(Clause 88 agreed to on division)

I'll now move to amendment NDP-64, but it is also identical to amendments LIB-39 and PV-66. There's another line conflict later on, but we'll get to that too.

Let's see what happens under NDP-64, with a recorded vote.

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

So the three of them are defeated.

Now we're on amendment G-32, and we'll have a recorded vote on this.

(Amendment agreed to: yeas 9; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Excellent job. We need to vote on clause 89.

(Clause 89 as amended agreed to on division)

(Clause 90 agreed to)

(Clause 91 and 92 agreed to on division)

I now have amendment Government-33 in my hands.

5:30 p.m.

NDP

Craig Scott NDP Toronto—Danforth, ON

Can we have a recorded vote?

5:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

I've just been told there's a spelling mistake that's been changed on this page.

Shall we vote on this? We'll have a recorded vote.

(Amendment agreed to: yeas 9; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

(Clause 93 as amended agreed to on division)

5:35 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

We're on amendment Government-34

(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

(Clause 94 as amended agreed to)

(Clauses 95 and 96 agreed to)

I go then to Liberal-40. It's identical to PV-67, so a vote for one will be a vote for all.

I hear a call for a recorded vote.

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

Both are defeated, a two-for-one special on those. I am now at G-35.

(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

(Clause 97 as amended agreed to on division)

(Clauses 98 and 99 agreed to on division)

We have NDP-65, and a recorded vote.

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

Before we vote on clause 100, because that will be significant—a triple-digit clause—we're going to pause just for a minute.

5:55 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

We'll come back to order. We did a bunch in a run there, and I'm thankful that you all cooperated, and we did a bunch of work.

We are now, from a straight significance point of view, at clause 100.

(Clauses 100 to 106 inclusive agreed to on division)

We have to wait on clause 107. This one has a new motion. We have, in fact, new Liberal amendment 40.1 and a new government amendment, whatever it is. They're identical, so a vote on one will be a vote on both.

(Amendment agreed to on division [See Minutes of Proceedings])

(Clause 107 as amended agreed to on division)

5:55 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

I now have amendment Liberal-41.

All in favour? No, there's a line conflict. Amendment PV-68, NDP-66, and NDP-65.1 all have a line conflict, so let's move on to voting on amendment Liberal-41.

(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])

It is defeated, as were all the others that were attached to it.

No, it's just a line conflict. They're not similar enough for me to go that fast, okay.

So now were going to amendment PV-68.

(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Amendment NDP-65.1....

5:55 p.m.

An hon. member

A recorded vote.

5:55 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston