Citizenship and Immigration Committee on June 19th, 2006

[Ed Komarnicki, Conservative, Souris—Moose Mountain, SK]

Far be it from me to suggest that the parliamentary secretary is anything like that. It's the chair's decision, but the chair shouldn't be forced to make a decision on an important matter until the chair's satisfied.

This issue we're talking about is not a minuscule motion. It has some significant, substantive jurisdictional issues that need to be addressed, and it's quite appropriate not to necessarily make the decision on the moment. That's a prerogative of the chair and it's something that needs to be taken into account in the course of events.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

I think the clerk needed some time to—

[Blair Wilson, Liberal, West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC]

On a point of order--

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

—check the various references that were made.

[Blair Wilson, Liberal, West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC]

I have a point of order.

Just before you go, I know you're going to be ruling on the Standing Order 108(2) that we talked about earlier, but since this committee has been formed, we've had one motion already that's gone before it, and it was unanimously passed under that same standing order. So the precedent you have set is that we've accepted this 108(2) prior to, and now we're looking at it again.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

Those motions are different.

Anyway, on the agenda, first of all, I think we have our agenda set, and we will be adding various items to it as we go along. The steering committee will be looking at other items as we finish up these.

On Mr. Siksay's motion, of course, we'll be dealing with that on Wednesday, when I have advice from the clerk on it.

In the meantime, the meeting is adjourned if there's no other business. The meeting is adjourned.