Procedure and House Affairs Committee on May 7th, 2019

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Ms. Kusie.

[Stephanie Kusie, Conservative, Calgary Midnapore, AB]

I feel as though, Chair, this has the same theme as my previous suggested motion.

Mr. Bittle, are you sure? This really will be the WWF of PROC. We're getting into the creamed corn here. This is bad. I'd like to offer the government one more opportunity. Let's put the motion as it is. We'll do a recorded vote. If it reveals nothing else, there's no harm, no foul, and we move on. I suggest that to the government, just make sure.

Thank you, Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Is there any further discussion before we vote?

The committee will suspend for a couple of minutes.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Are we ready to vote on the subamendment?

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

Yes. We would like a recorded vote.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We will have a recorded vote.

(Subamendment negatived: nays 5; yeas 4)

We're now on the amendment.

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

I was jotting down my own notes for the subamendment. I didn't get the amendment.

Could either Chris or the clerk read it?

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Chris, do you want to?

[Chris Bittle, Liberal, St. Catharines, ON]

At the end of line two, it's “and the Conservative Party of Canada”. Then it ends, “and his decision to issue a compliance agreement to SNC-Lavalin and Pierre Poilievre.”

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

Would you be able to say "compliance agreements", plural?

[Chris Bittle, Liberal, St. Catharines, ON]

Yes.

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

Forgive me, but I have one other question to ask. You're aware that the Pierre Poilievre compliance agreement is not with relation to SNC-Lavalin. That's on a separate matter.

[Chris Bittle, Liberal, St. Catharines, ON]

I'm aware.

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

Okay. Good. I have no further comments.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We'll have a recorded vote on the amendment.

(Amendment agreed to: yeas 9; nays 0)

Now we'll have the vote on the motion as amended.

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

I'd like a recorded vote.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We'll have a recorded vote.

Just for the wording, Mr. Reid, would it be a friendly amendment that the committee “invite” the Commissioner of Canada Elections to appear?

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

Yes. If everybody else is agreeable to it, I certainly am.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We have a recorded vote on the motion as amended.

(Motion as amended negatived: nays 5; yeas 4)

Carrying on committee business, I'll go to Mr. Caron, but I'm wondering if I could get the permission of the committee to use Thursday's meeting to give instructions to the researcher on our parallel chamber report.

Mr. Reid.

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

I'd be fine with that.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Is anyone opposed?

That's great. We'll do that on Thursday.

Mr. Caron.

[Guy Caron, NDP, Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC]

I'd like to say that I am quite pleased to set aside the motion Mr. Christopherson wanted to present and to let him introduce it at some subsequent date. I will not introduce it this morning.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Okay. We're not discussing that motion today.

On that list I handed out, is there anything we haven't dealt with yet?

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

There's my point of order, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We tried to do things while you were away, but it didn't work.