Evidence of meeting #1 for Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
A recording is available from Parliament.
12:20 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
Thank you, Ms. Kusie. I will call the members in the speaking order—just a point.
Mr. Jeneroux.
12:20 p.m.
Conservative
Matt Jeneroux Conservative Edmonton Riverbend, AB
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's always a great day when you can listen to the good oration of my colleague from Calgary Midnapore.
I have a simple question of clarification. I asked earlier about the motion and it was identified that it was an hour long. I guess we're up against time limits and everything. I just ask you to give a little more clarification on that, Mr. Chair.
12:20 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
Actually, I will ask Mr. Long, as he moved the motion.
Just before we get to that, Ms. Kusie, it has been the practice of this committee that when minor motions are made during debate, the interpretation serves as translation, so they're not required to be translated.
12:20 p.m.
Liberal
12:20 p.m.
Liberal
Wayne Long Liberal Saint John—Rothesay, NB
Chair, I'd have to get clarity from the minister or his department with respect to time. The minister said he could appear for an hour. That was going to be from 11:30 to 12:30 or 11:45 to 12:45. As you can see now, we're at 12:25. I'm not sure if we can extend the meeting if the minister's schedule permits. I'm not aware of that.
Maybe somebody could give us clarity whether the minister could stay for an hour from 12:30 to 1:30.
12:25 p.m.
Conservative
Matt Jeneroux Conservative Edmonton Riverbend, AB
I just simply ask you, Mr. Chair, if we could clarify that before—
12:25 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
Okay. Let me get clarification, and then I would ask to proceed to the vote on the amendment.
Committee, we'll suspend for a few minutes while we get the clarification that Mr. Jeneroux requested. Could somebody from the minister get me a clarification?
The committee is suspended until 12:30.
12:25 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
Committee members, we agreed to suspend until 12:30 to give us a chance to get clarification from the minister. Could we come back to order?
Mr. Jeneroux asked the question of Mr. Long.
12:30 p.m.
Liberal
Wayne Long Liberal Saint John—Rothesay, NB
Thank you, Chair.
Through you to MP Jeneroux, the minister is available for an hour. Given agreement, we can start right away for an hour.
12:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
I recall that we were going to.... Those were the only people who had their hands up prior to....
Do you have something relative to the amended motion?
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
Scott Aitchison Conservative Parry Sound—Muskoka, ON
If I may, Mr. Chair, I just want to clarify. I fear my name may have been used in vain in my absence here. I did get an email from the minister this morning just apologizing that he wouldn't be here in person, but nothing about the committee specifically. It was just that the weather and the wind were bad in Newfoundland, to which I said, “Okay, great.” I didn't really know he was speaking specifically about committee. I wasn't actually aware that the minister was going to be here.
That said, I don't really care. It would nice to be a little more explicit next time, but I'm happy to have the discussion and move along.
12:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
I'm going to call the vote on the amendment to the main motion that was presented by my colleague from Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound.
You have heard the amendment. Do you want to repeat it again, Mr. Ruff?
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
Alex Ruff Conservative Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, ON
Sure.
I move that the minister appear later this week.
12:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
You have all heard the amendment. We shall vote on the amendment. We're going to do a recorded vote.
(Amendment negatived: nays 7; yeas 4)
We move to vote on the main motion that was moved by Mr. Long.
(Motion agreed to: yeas 7; nays 4)
We will now move to welcome the minister to the committee.
We will suspend for two minutes to do a sound check, Mr. Minister, before you come live to the committee.
12:55 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
I am going to resume the committee meeting so that the committee can decide. We had made a decision to extend to 1:30 and the minister had agreed to that, but it is impossible to tell when the technical issues will be addressed.
Minister, it is not from your side; it's within the committee room.
What is the wish of the committee? Does the committee wish to adjourn?
12:55 p.m.
Conservative
12:55 p.m.
Conservative
Stephanie Kusie Conservative Calgary Midnapore, AB
I hereby move that we invite the minister to appear at a soon but later date.
12:55 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
There has been a motion made to the committee.
(Motion agreed to)
The motion is unanimous and, Minister, you had the benefit of hearing that motion.
With that, members, I will entertain a motion of adjournment.
12:55 p.m.
An hon. member
I so move.
