Evidence of meeting #2 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was study.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Bloc
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Liberal
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.
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Conservative
Raquel Dancho Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul, MB
Can we pause for five minutes between the adjournment and the start of the subcommittee?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Salma Zahid
Yes. First we have to go through this and decide about the subcommittee.
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Liberal
Sukh Dhaliwal Liberal Surrey—Newton, BC
Madam Chair, shall I bring in the motion to adjourn the meeting right now?
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Liberal
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.
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Liberal
Sukh Dhaliwal Liberal Surrey—Newton, BC
Therefore, I will now bring in the motion to adjourn the meeting.
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Salma Zahid
I will ask the clerk: On the question put forward by Mr. Dhaliwal, do we need a recorded vote?
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The Clerk
Not unless there is no unanimity to adjourn the meeting.
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Liberal
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.
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Conservative
Raquel Dancho Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul, MB
I will give my consent, yes, but I have a procedural question before we vote on that.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Salma Zahid
Let me check with the clerk.
Can we go into a procedural question before we go into unanimous consent?
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The Clerk
Ordinarily, the only way to interrupt the vote on a motion to adjourn the meeting is to raise a point of order.
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Conservative
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Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
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Conservative
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.
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Liberal
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.
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NDP
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.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Salma Zahid
The clerk can clarify, based on the routine motions we passed in the last meeting.
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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;
