Citizenship and Immigration Committee on Feb. 16th, 2016

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

On division.

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

Thank you.

(Motion agreed to on division)

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

The next routine motion is on statements by witnesses and their questioning. It is that the witnesses from any one organization shall be allowed 10 minutes to make their opening statements.

I believe everyone has a copy, so you can take a look at the rotation by time. Is it necessary to read through it?

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

No, it's not, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

Thank you.

[Salma Zahid, Liberal, Scarborough Centre, ON]

I so move.

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

Thank you.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

That is on division.

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

Thank you.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

We're not there yet.

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

The next motion, on distribution of documents, states that only the clerk of the committee be authorized to distribute to the members of the committee any documents, including—

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

Excuse me. We just voted on statements by witnesses.

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

That's correct.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

Then we're now onto the sequence for the questions to witnesses.

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

That rotation was part of the same motion.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

Oh, I'm sorry. Then we do wish to discuss that motion. I thought that was a separate heading. I apologize. Mr. Chairman, that's the only one on which we're raising discussion, quite frankly, and I ask that you bring that one back.

[Yasmin Ratansi, Liberal, Don Valley East, ON]

Sure. Agreed.

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

Thank you.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

That was my mistake, Mr. Chairman. I'm sorry.

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

That's not a problem.

We're all a little rushed because of the weather this morning.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

Yes.

I assume there's a motion by someone to....

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

I believe it was by Ms. Zahid.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

Perhaps you should read out the motion, then.

[The Chair, Liberal, Borys Wrzesnewskyj]

Okay. It reads as follows:

That the witnesses from any one organization shall be allowed ten (10) minutes to make their opening statement; and, That the order of questions for the first round be as follows: Conservative, six (6) minutes, Liberal, six (6) minutes, New Democratic Party, six (6) minutes, Liberal, six (6) minutes; and, That the order of questions for the second round be as follows: Liberal, six (6) minutes, Conservative, six (6) minutes, Liberal, six (6) minutes, Conservative, five (5) minutes, New Democratic Party, three (3) minutes.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

Mr. Chairman, could we make an amendment to that motion on the rotation by time?

The amendment would be, for round one, that the Liberals would have seven minutes, the Conservative Party seven minutes, the New Democratic Party seven minutes, and the Liberal Party seven minutes.

For round two, the Conservative Party would have five minutes, the Liberal Party five minutes, the Conservative Party five minutes, the Liberal Party five minutes, and the New Democratic Party three minutes.