Evidence of meeting #59 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 quality.
A recording is available from Parliament.
NDP
Leah Gazan NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
No, I'm just kidding.
With all due respect, this national child care plan.... Canadian families are waiting for it, so I feel really cautious about having all those meetings. I'd like to get this legislation done. I'd like to get it off the docket. We know we have a limited amount of sitting weeks.
I think everybody's anxiously waiting for us to finish and get to work, so I would support the amendment posed by Mr. Long to extend that, so that we can get this legislation to the Senate in a timely fashion and back on the floor.
Conservative
Rosemarie Falk Conservative Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK
Thank you, Chair.
Through you, to Ms. Gazan, the priority is government legislation, so that would happen anyway. This is just putting it on our working calendar, and it's a way for us to keep the Liberal ministers accountable for what they have in supplementary and main estimates.
Liberal
Ya'ara Saks Liberal York Centre, ON
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
While I am a visitor wt this committee, I know how often my minister is here to answer questions. I think it's a reasonable amount of time to have panels for pointed and targeted questions that, certainly, any member of this committee could ask.
At this time, I'd like to move that we vote on the amendment.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
Ms. Gazan had her hand up. If there's no further discussion after, we will go to a vote.
Go ahead, Ms. Gazan.
Leah Gazan NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
As a guest at this committee, as well, and somebody who puts tremendous value in research, I know there is a study on the financialization of housing. We have a housing crisis in this country. I think it's important that there be appropriate time to facilitate that study. For that reason, I would support the amendment.
Thank you.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
Seeing no further discussion, I will ask the clerk to call a recorded vote on Mr. Long's amendment.
(Amendment agreed to: yeas 6; nays 5)
Bloc
Sylvie Bérubé Bloc Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, QC
Mr. Chair, Mr. Coteau is in his car and he's not wearing his headset.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey
He did indicate so. I recognized a vote. He can put his thumb up or down.
Mr. Coteau, do you want...? Okay.
The amendment was carried, so now we'll vote on the motion, as amended, Mr. Clerk.
(Motion as amended agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0)
The meeting is adjourned.