Citizenship and Immigration Committee on April 28th, 2008

[Bill Siksay, NDP, Burnaby—Douglas, BC]

On a point of order, Chair, I made a motion to amend. I believe it was in order. Is that not on the table now?

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

That's the second one. This was the first amendment.

[Bill Siksay, NDP, Burnaby—Douglas, BC]

Okay.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

The amendment was made when we started.

[Jim Karygiannis, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

May I finish?

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

No, not yet.

The amendment, according to the clerk, was made when we started. We'll vote on the amendment and we'll vote on the main motion as well.

[Wajid Khan, Conservative, Mississauga—Streetsville, ON]

[Inaudible--Editor]...before the amendment was made, Mr. Chair; however, it's your call.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

The amendment has to be put.

[Jim Karygiannis, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

Mr. Chair, may I finish?

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

Yes.

[Jim Karygiannis, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

Okay, sir, what I am recommending is in order to assist the clerk if he takes the motion of Mr. Khan, and on the fifth line: and convey its recommendations to the Standing Committee on Finance no later than Friday, May 9, 2008, further to the Standing Committee on Finance's request unanimously passed on April 16, 2008, and transmitted to this committee on April 17, 2008; and further, that the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration shall begin on Monday--

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

This is very difficult for the clerk to get down. You can't do this. You can't set it down.

[Jim Karygiannis, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

Mr. Chair, it's very simple. He can. He just takes Mr. Wajid Khan's bill and he puts “convey its” and right after “its” puts “preliminary recommendations”--

[Maurizio Bevilacqua, Liberal, Vaughan, ON]

Of May 16.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

Your amendment has to do with Mr. Khan's--

[Jim Karygiannis, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

Preliminary recommendations.

[Deepak Obhrai, Conservative, Calgary East, AB]

You said May 9.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

To do Mr. Khan's motion, but extending the end date to May 16.

[Jim Karygiannis, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

Listen to what I said: preliminary.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

It's up to the committee to agree.

[Jim Karygiannis, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

Mr. Chair, I put it--

[Deepak Obhrai, Conservative, Calgary East, AB]

Call the question.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

I call the question on the amendment then. Do you understand the amendment of Mr. Karygiannis that it be extended?

I'll have the clerk read it. Can you read it for us, sir?

[The Clerk of the Committee, Mr. Andrew Chaplin]

Fundamentally, Mr. Karygiannis has proposed that the motion be amended in its fifth line by inserting the word “preliminary” between “convey its” and the word “recommendations”. I believe there's a second part.

[Jim Karygiannis, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

The second part is that we take Mr. Komarnicki's motion that the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration shall begin on Monday, the 28th, everything he has except line six, which is the particular day of May 7.