Ms. Falk, bring yourself to order, please. Thank you.
I'm establishing this clearly so that everybody knows the administrative responsibilities of the chair under paragraph 20.33 of the House of Commons Procedure and Practice, fourth edition. The chair “decides on the agenda for the meeting while respecting the instructions of the committee; cancels scheduled meetings or modifies agendas if an unexpected development makes this necessary and there is no opportunity for the committee to consider the matter”.
It was in my scope as the chair. I rescheduled that part of the agenda to today when I found we would have the resources to do it. Bill C-222 will be at the committee in the last hour of this meeting.
You did challenge that, Ms. Falk, which is your prerogative, just as any committee member has the prerogative to do, as a matter of privilege. As I said, the chair does not rule on points of privilege. However, if the committee, by majority, feels that privilege was violated, then the committee would have to make a motion to refer the issue that was viewed as a violation of privilege to the Speaker of the House, and the Speaker would then make the ruling.
That's where we're at.
Now we're voting on it. To be clear, I'll get the clerk to read the dilatory motion that was moved by Ms. Falk.