Evidence of meeting #1 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
A recording is available from Parliament.
11:15 a.m.
Liberal
Fayçal El-Khoury Liberal Laval—Les Îles, QC
On linguistic review:
That all documents submitted for committee business that do not come from a federal department or that have not been translated by the Translation Bureau be sent for prior linguistic review by the Translation Bureau before being distributed to members.
December 14th, 2021 / 11:15 a.m.
Liberal
11:15 a.m.
Liberal
11:15 a.m.
Liberal
Fayçal El-Khoury Liberal Laval—Les Îles, QC
It reads:
Linguistic Review
That all documents submitted for committee business that do not come from a federal department or that have not been translated by the Translation Bureau be sent for prior linguistic review by the Translation Bureau before being distributed to members.
(Motion agreed to)
11:15 a.m.
Liberal
Fayçal El-Khoury Liberal Laval—Les Îles, QC
The next motion is about analyst services:
That the committee retain, as needed and at the discretion of the chair, the services of one or more analysts from the Library of Parliament to assist it in its work.
11:15 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Salma Zahid
Thank you.
All those in favour of this motion?
(Motion agreed to)
Before you proceed to pass the next motion for the analysts services, we would request the analysts to please [Technical Difficulty--Editor].
Those who are on the camera—
11:15 a.m.
Bloc
Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe Bloc Lac-Saint-Jean, QC
On a point of order, Madam Chair.
I'm told that there is a problem affecting interpretation. I think there is a problem with your microphone, which means that the interpreters, unfortunately, cannot do their work properly.
11:20 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Salma Zahid
I will have a look at that.
Can everyone hear me now? There is a problem with the microphones. We will suspend for five minutes for the interpreters to look into it.
I call the meeting back to order. Can I have the attention of all members? Is everyone able to hear properly? Is the interpretation working for everyone?
Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe, are you okay?
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Salma Zahid
We have passed the motion on the services of the analysts, and I would welcome our three analysts to their chairs, or, if they are on Zoom, they can turn their cameras on. We will have the services of Julie Béchard, Madalina Chesoi and Martin McCallum.
Thank you for all the work you do for this committee, and welcome to CIMM.
We can proceed to the next motion.
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
Fayçal El-Khoury Liberal Laval—Les Îles, QC
On the subcommittee on agenda and procedure:
That the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure be established and be composed of five (5) members; the Chair, one member from each recognized party; and that the subcommittee work in a spirit of collaboration.
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
Fayçal El-Khoury Liberal Laval—Les Îles, QC
The next motion concerns meetings without a quorum:
That the chair be authorized to hold meetings to receive evidence and to have that evidence published when a quorum is not present, provided that at least four members are present, including two members of the opposition parties and two members of the government party, but when travelling outside the parliamentary precinct, that the meeting begin after 15 minutes, regardless of members present.
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
Fayçal El-Khoury Liberal Laval—Les Îles, QC
On time for opening remarks and questioning of witnesses:
That witnesses be given five minutes for their opening statement; that whenever possible, witnesses provide the committee with their opening statement 72 hours in advance; that at the discretion of the Chair, during the questioning of witnesses, there be allocated six minutes for the first questioner of each party as follows for the first round: Conservative Party, Liberal Party, Bloc Québécois, New Democratic Party
For the second and subsequent rounds, the order and time for the questioning be as follows: Conservative Party, five minutes; Liberal Party, five minutes; Bloc Québécois, two and a half minutes; New Democratic Party, two and a half minutes; Conservative Party, five minutes; Liberal Party, five minutes
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
11:25 a.m.
NDP
Jenny Kwan NDP Vancouver East, BC
Madam Chair, before we vote on this motion, I would just like to propose the following for members' consideration. While I don't propose that this becomes an official component of our routine, in the past what we have done at this committee and other committees is that when we got to the repeat of the second round—the Bloc and the NDP—I wonder if committee members would allow, at the discretion of the chair, for us at the bottom to have an additional round so that we will get another two and a half minutes in the bottom round, as we have done previously at this committee.
11:30 a.m.
Liberal
Fayçal El-Khoury Liberal Laval—Les Îles, QC
I believe the chair has the authority and the discretion to allocate the time they may consider needed for the meeting.
