Evidence of meeting #84 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site.) The winning word was chair.
A recording is available from Parliament.
NDP
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims (Newton—North Delta, NDP)) NDP Jinny Sims
I would like to call the meeting to order.
I am taking a speakers list. Be patient, please.
The meeting has been convened for 2 o'clock, and I want to say with very little notice. Some people just received their notice as they walked into the room. Considering the time of 2 a.m., I am suspending the meeting until 8:30 a.m.
NDP
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims) NDP Jinny Sims
I am going to reconvene the meeting that we suspended yesterday.
Mr. Lamoureux.
Liberal
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
I've been anxiously awaiting the opportunity to be able to express a few thoughts on the motion, so I'd like to take the opportunity at this point to do so.
NDP
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims) NDP Jinny Sims
The chair would ask members to be patient. We did not adjourn the meeting yesterday; we suspended the meeting. As a result, I have a speakers list now in front of me from the clerk, and we will be proceeding with that list.
So that people who want to get on the list can do so, if they're not on it yet...I have Madame Groguhé, Rathika Sitsabaiesan, Mr. Dykstra....
NDP
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims) NDP Jinny Sims
Okay. Instead of Mr. Dykstra...well, the speakers list says Mr. Dykstra. I'll check into how that works with the order of speakers.
Then I have Ms. Freeman, Mr. Leung, Mr. Lamoureux, Madam Sims, Mylène Freeman, John Weston, Ted Opitz, Ms. James, and Pierre Nantel. Pierre isn't here because he was subbing in yesterday, so I'm taking that name off the list.
Conservative
NDP
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims) NDP Jinny Sims
It was Mr. Menegakis who had asked me—Pierre-Luc is back with us—to go through the list, and this is the list we adopted yesterday.
Conservative
Costas Menegakis Conservative Richmond Hill, ON
Yes. I'd like you to clarify that, because we were all here and everybody put up their hands at the same time. You're starting with two NDP speakers. You think it would go left and right, in fairness, back and forth.
We all put our hands up at the same time, and you start by putting down two NDP speakers. Do you think that is fair?
NDP
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims) NDP Jinny Sims
Just let the chair make a ruling on your question.
Conservative
NDP
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims) NDP Jinny Sims
On your question, a speakers list was provided. We're not starting a new one. We're going back to the one we accepted yesterday and went through. I read out the names as I put people's names on this list.
NDP
Conservative
Costas Menegakis Conservative Richmond Hill, ON
If you check the record, you didn't read out the names, Madam Chair.
NDP
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims) NDP Jinny Sims
Well, this is the list we have from yesterday—
Conservative
NDP
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims) NDP Jinny Sims
This is the list we have from yesterday. This is the list the chair has and this is the list the chair is going to proceed with.
I will seek some clarification on a question that was raised.
NDP
The Vice-Chair (Ms. Jinny Jogindera Sims) NDP Jinny Sims
No, I actually did. I went to Sadia, then Rathika, and Rick had his hand up, and I—