Procedure and House Affairs Committee on June 20th, 2024

[Blaine Calkins, Conservative, Red Deer—Lacombe, AB]

That's what I assumed, but I just wanted to make sure.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ben Carr]

Okay. That's good.

With that, the floor is open, colleagues, to continue the discussion on Ms. Mathyssen's motion.

Okay. I think what I'm going to do, colleagues, is that I'm just going to very briefly suspend so that we can have an opportunity to speak to each other about where we would like this to go. We do have a motion that is live in front of us.

[Mona Fortier, Liberal, Ottawa—Vanier, ON]

Why don't we just vote on it?

[Eric Duncan, Conservative, Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON]

Let's just vote.

[A voice]

The debate has collapsed.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ben Carr]

There are no speakers. The debate has collapsed. I'm just looking....

In the future, colleagues, verbalize your intentions for me, please. It helps for me to know—

[A voice]

[Inaudible—Editor]

[The Chair, Liberal, Ben Carr]

That's fair.

Madam Clerk, I'll ask you to call the question, please.

Colleagues, for clarity here, we are voting on the motion as amended.

[Mark Gerretsen, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

I have a point of order, Mr. Chair.

[A voice]

There's no point of order.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ben Carr]

Mr. Gerretsen—

[A voice]

The vote has started. Let's vote and get it done.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ben Carr]

Mr. Gerretsen.

[Mark Gerretsen, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

You have the authority to suspend the meeting. I'm just—

[An hon. member]

I have a point of order.

[Mark Gerretsen, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

I would ask for a couple of minutes. There seems to be some confusion, so I wouldn't mind talking to my colleagues about that, if that's okay.

[An hon. member]

I have a point of order, Mr. Chair.

[Michael Cooper, Conservative, St. Albert—Edmonton, AB]

How's the lawsuit going, Mark?

[The Chair, Liberal, Ben Carr]

Thank you, Mr. Gerretsen.

Mr. Cooper, it's our first meeting. I would appreciate it if we could try to keep things collegial.

Mr. Berthold, would you like to speak?

[Luc Berthold, Conservative, Mégantic—L'Érable, QC]

Mr. Chair, I would like to ask you to consult the clerk. You asked the question, so we should get straight to the vote. I think that the clerk should do her job and proceed with the vote.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ben Carr]

One second.

Colleagues, I called the question, so we're going to have to proceed to a vote. Please take your seats.

(Motion as amended negatived: nays 6; yeas 5 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

[Michael Cooper, Conservative, St. Albert—Edmonton, AB]

That's unbelievable.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ben Carr]

Go ahead, Mr. Cooper.

[Michael Cooper, Conservative, St. Albert—Edmonton, AB]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

I'd like to move a motion that is on notice. I'll read it into the record so all members are familiar with it.

It reads:

That the committee invite the Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs to appear before the committee for no less than two hours, within 14 days of the adoption of this motion, in relation to his priorities for the return of Parliament and his mandate.

I will make some comments, but I recognize you might want to allow members some time to pull up the motion.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ben Carr]

Thank you very much, Mr. Cooper.

You had put said notice on motion. Therefore, it is admissible and can be debated now.

Colleagues, we begin a debate on the motion Mr. Cooper has put forward. Mr. Cooper has asked to retain the floor to provide some commentary. I'm going to allow him the opportunity to do that now.

Mr. Cooper, the floor is yours.