Procedure and House Affairs Committee on May 29th, 2018

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

He just wants to have in the motion the names of the cities that we're going to.

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

We're the ones asking to actually go through the legislation. You're the ones wanting to ram it through. There's no problem with getting us to go through the legislation.

[Ruby Sahota, Liberal, Brampton North, ON]

That's why I put under number six that the proposed travel—

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

Well, I don't believe it's appropriate to discuss a motion that is undefined. Tell us what your motion is in relation to travel.

[An hon. member]

[Inaudible—Editor]

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

We have not agreed to that, so put it in the motion.

[Andy Fillmore, Liberal, Halifax, NS]

[Inaudible—Editor] chance to approve it.

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

No, it's not, because you guys refused to agree to it, so you have to put it in your motion. You can't have it both ways.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Read it in.

[Ruby Sahota, Liberal, Brampton North, ON]

Okay. Still going in the same order that I had laid out earlier.... I think you can go back to the record, but anyway, number one was—

Would you like me to reread it all so that it's clarified?

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Just read the travel clause.

[Ruby Sahota, Liberal, Brampton North, ON]

Okay.

The travel clause, I guess, would go from being number one to number six from what you guys got yesterday, right? It would be that the committee travel across Canada from June 4, 2018, until June 8, 2018, and the clerk be authorized to organize travel with meetings in communities in the following regions: Atlantic Canada...and I think we should specify all the communities that we've just named today in numbered order...and that the travel budget be approved.

[A voice]

As described....

[Ruby Sahota, Liberal, Brampton North, ON]

Yes.

[An hon. member]

[Inaudible—Editor]

[Ruby Sahota, Liberal, Brampton North, ON]

I don't know [Inaudible—Editor]. You can say “as described”. No, it's not.... It's Vancouver rather than.... This is an estimate, right? We can be clearer in number six about the cities that we've mentioned, the locations we've mentioned, and then add “and that the travel budget be approved.”

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

We're being asked to debate a motion that no one can even tell us the wording of.

[Ruby Sahota, Liberal, Brampton North, ON]

I'll just read it out to you again, Blake. I mean—

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

What I would require is to actually hear the wording of the motion not these vague concepts that are being thrown around here.

[Ruby Sahota, Liberal, Brampton North, ON]

It's not a vague concept. We've sat here for two hours and discussed—

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

It is.

[Ruby Sahota, Liberal, Brampton North, ON]

No. The cities, the—

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

If you want to pass a motion—

[Ruby Sahota, Liberal, Brampton North, ON]

—journey, which way—

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

This is the way you guys want to do things. This is the way you guys want to do it.