Citizenship and Immigration Committee on Oct. 20th, 2020

[Christine Normandin, Bloc, Saint-Jean, QC]

I move that debate on the motion be adjourned.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Ms. Normandin has moved that the debate be now adjourned.

Do I have unanimous consent to adjourn debate on the motion proposed by Ms. Normandin?

Go ahead, Ms. Dancho.

[Raquel Dancho, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

Can we pause for five minutes between the adjournment and the start of the subcommittee?

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Yes. First we have to go through this and decide about the subcommittee.

[Raquel Dancho, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

Okay.

[Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Surrey—Newton, BC]

Madam Chair, shall I bring in the motion to adjourn the meeting right now?

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

One second; we have the question right now, as put forward by Ms. Normandin, that debate on the motion moved by her be adjourned.

Do I have unanimous consent? I see I do.

(Motion agreed to)

Okay. The debate on that motion is adjourned.

[Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Surrey—Newton, BC]

Therefore, I will now bring in the motion to adjourn the meeting.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Let me clarify with the clerk.

[Raquel Dancho, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

Madam Chair, I have a question—

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

I will ask the clerk: On the question put forward by Mr. Dhaliwal, do we need a recorded vote?

[The Clerk]

Not unless there is no unanimity to adjourn the meeting.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Do we have unanimous consent to adjourn the meeting? If we don't have unanimous consent, we will have to go to a recorded vote.

[Raquel Dancho, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

I will give my consent, yes, but I have a procedural question before we vote on that.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Let me check with the clerk.

Can we go into a procedural question before we go into unanimous consent?

[The Clerk]

Ordinarily, the only way to interrupt the vote on a motion to adjourn the meeting is to raise a point of order.

[Raquel Dancho, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

On a point of order, a very friendly one—

[Some hon. members]

Oh, oh!

[Raquel Dancho, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

—I just wanted to clarify that we'll adjourn this meeting and then go right into subcommittee. If that is the case, can we have a five-minute recess between adjournment and subcommittee today?

Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

If we have to go into a subcommittee, as per the clerk, we have to have 15 minutes. Anything passed in the subcommittee will have to come back to the full committee to adopt be adopted. I just want to clarify that for the members.

[Jenny Kwan, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

Madam Chair, could I also raise a point of order—

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Yes.

[Jenny Kwan, NDP, Vancouver East, BC]

—mostly for technical clarification?

When we adjourn this committee meeting and go into subcommittee, will the subcommittee be in camera or on the public record? I just need clarification on that.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

The clerk can clarify, based on the routine motions we passed in the last meeting.

[The Clerk]

Thank you, Madam Chair.

The committee adopted a routine motion in the first meeting “that the committee may only meet in camera for the following purposes”:

a. to consider a draft report;

b. to attend briefings concerning national security;

c. to consider lists of witnesses; and

d. for any other reason with the unanimous consent of the committee;