Pardon me, Madam Chair, but I've been on many committees now and I have never yet seen a vote on resuming debate on a motion that is live and that has been duly put on notice and debated several times by a committee. I've never seen that at any other parliamentary committee. The motion was not voted down prior at committee. The procedures for committee business are that, if a motion has been duly put on notice as per the rules this committee has set, then any member may move or resume debate on a motion that has yet to be resolved by the committee. Now we have an amendment to that motion. There's no vote to be had, Madam Chair.
The way I understand it, the procedures are done. We are supposed to be debating it. If there are no speakers, then we would proceed to a vote on the amendment and then on the main motion. I'm not going to say anything else because I don't want to prolong the meeting. I do want to go in camera to deal with Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe's point about the meeting of a delegation.
I believe, Madam Chair, that procedurally there would be no vote on whether you can resume debate on a motion that's been duly put on notice and that is live before a committee because it has not been resolved yet.