Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Nov. 14th, 2022

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

I saw him.

I have a point of order.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bardish Chagger]

The question has been called. Take it up in the House.

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

Madam Chair, I clearly saw Mr. Nater request the floor before you called the question. With all due respect, I ask you please to give the floor to Mr. Nater, who actually requested it. He raised his hand before you called the question, and you didn't see him. It isn't Mr. Nater's fault that you couldn't see him, Madam Chair.

We do have to have a debate on the main motion, which now includes the amendments moved by Mr. Fergus in his amendment. It is completely unacceptable to call the vote immediately on this motion without giving Mr. Nater a chance to speak, particularly since I clearly saw him request the floor before you called the question. I give you my word. We've always said in the House that we must rely on the good faith of parliamentarians. I repeat, in all honesty, that Mr. Nater did request the floor before you called the question, Madam Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bardish Chagger]

Go ahead, Mr. Nater.

[John Nater, Conservative, Perth—Wellington, ON]

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Now we're on the main motion as amended. I would make an amendment to add, after “these redacted documents be deposited as soon as possible”, the words “but not later than 14 days after the adoption of this motion”. Then we would carry on with “with the Clerk of the Committee to be distributed to all members of the Committee in both official languages.”

I think that's putting a timeline on it. That's the extent of my intervention.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bardish Chagger]

Go ahead, Mr. Fergus.

[Greg Fergus, Liberal, Hull—Aylmer, QC]

I'll be equally brief, Madam Chair.

I would like to make a subamendment to Mr. Nater's amendment to replace “15” with “30”.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bardish Chagger]

Is that instead of “14” days?

[Greg Fergus, Liberal, Hull—Aylmer, QC]

Excuse me. I would replace “14” with “30”. I think it stands to reason.... That's what was talked about among colleagues beforehand.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bardish Chagger]

I'm going to call the question on Mr. Fergus's subamendment.

(Subamendment negatived: nays 6; yeas 5 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

I will now call the question on Mr. Nater's amendment to the motion.

(Amendment agreed to: yeas 6; nays 5 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

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

Thank you. Everything has been voted on. Everything is good.

We will be having a subcommittee meeting tomorrow. It appears that you have received the draft report for the precinct study, which we will continue. The motion that we passed today is adding a few names. Lots of them are names that were already on the list for the foreign interference study.

If my understanding is correct, just so the clerk and I know, the names that we've already submitted, plus the names that have been added through this motion, are the ones we will slot into our meetings on foreign election interference.

Go ahead, Madam Blaney.

[Rachel Blaney, NDP, North Island—Powell River, BC]

I think the priority is the list we had today.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bardish Chagger]

Okay, that's fair.

With that, have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow.