Human Resources Committee on April 28th, 2022

[Soraya Martinez Ferrada, Liberal, Hochelaga, QC]

Yes—“the possibility”.

[Stephanie Kusie, Conservative, Calgary Midnapore, AB]

So we're voting on that one amendment.

[Soraya Martinez Ferrada, Liberal, Hochelaga, QC]

Yes.

[Stephanie Kusie, Conservative, Calgary Midnapore, AB]

All right.

Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bobby Morrissey]

Okay, everybody, you've heard the amendment by Madame—

[Stephanie Kusie, Conservative, Calgary Midnapore, AB]

Is the amendment a friendly one to Ms. Zarrillo?

[Bonita Zarrillo, NDP, Port Moody—Coquitlam, BC]

Yes.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bobby Morrissey]

Yes. She accepted it.

[Stephanie Kusie, Conservative, Calgary Midnapore, AB]

Okay. Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bobby Morrissey]

Yes. I'm sorry. Madam Zarrillo had agreed to that.

Madam Martinez Ferrada, is the amendment to add the word “possibly”?

[Soraya Martinez Ferrada, Liberal, Hochelaga, QC]

The amendment is “call upon the government for the possibility to codify”.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bobby Morrissey]

Okay.

All those in agreement with the amendment, please signify by putting up your hand.

I see a consensus.

(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

[The Chair, Liberal, Bobby Morrissey]

On the motion as amended, all those in agreement, please signify with your hand.

[Soraya Martinez Ferrada, Liberal, Hochelaga, QC]

I have an amendment, Mr. Chair.

[Stephanie Kusie, Conservative, Calgary Midnapore, AB]

That's what I thought. Yes. That's—

[Soraya Martinez Ferrada, Liberal, Hochelaga, QC]

The second amendment is “That, pursuant to Standing Order 109”—

[The Chair, Liberal, Bobby Morrissey]

We have a second amendment on the floor from Madam Ferrada.

Clerk, could you give the proper terminology?

Ms. Ferrada wants to add “That, pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee request that the government table a comprehensive response to this report.”

This is your amendment, Madam Ferrada?

All those in agreement will signify by saying “aye”.

(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Now we will vote on the motion as amended.

All those in agreement with the motion of Madam Zarrillo as amended?

We have unanimous consent.

(Motion as amended agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

In the few minutes we have left, there's one more item.

On April 27 a study budget in the amount of $26,750 was circulated for consideration and adoption. We need approval of the budget for the housing accelerator study.

Do we have agreement? Do we have approval?

(Motion agreed to)

Good. The budget is approved.

[Louise Chabot, Bloc, Thérèse-De Blainville, QC]

I have a question.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bobby Morrissey]

Ms. Chabot, the floor is yours.

[Louise Chabot, Bloc, Thérèse-De Blainville, QC]

Yes, I have one more question. I'm in favour of the budget proposal. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that we can now invite witnesses in person. We no longer have to limit ourselves in this respect.

If we were to invite witnesses in person, would this budget and subsequent budgets be enough?

[The Chair, Liberal, Bobby Morrissey]

I will ask the clerk to address that, Madame Chabot.

[The Clerk]

Yes, it's enough, because we did some calculations before proposing the budget. We allocate amounts for witnesses who appear virtually and in person.

[Louise Chabot, Bloc, Thérèse-De Blainville, QC]

Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Bobby Morrissey]

Thank you.

Go ahead, Mr. Van Bynen.

[Tony Van Bynen, Liberal, Newmarket—Aurora, ON]

Mr. Chair, I have a question before we deal with this motion. I don't want to interrupt the process with the motion. My question relates back to advertising and the communications piece for the award that we just heard today. If you want to finish the rest of the business, I would just like to speak to that.

As I said, I didn't want to interrupt, because the motion was introduced.