Citizenship and Immigration Committee on May 8th, 2023

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

Okay, it's 600,000.

I want to know how this happened. How is it that I don't have the courtesy of looking at technical amendments when a third party did? I get that colleagues may discuss them among themselves. That's fine. They have that privilege, but the red line is this: We don't send these things to third parties when we're in the middle of the bill review.

I realize my colleague Ms. Kwan said there have been matters brought up before, but I don't believe we were in the middle of a bill review or clause-by-clause consideration at that time, particularly for amendments that needed a special motion in the House of Commons in order to be introduced at committee.

For those watching, what happened here is very serious. We have to protect procedure. When we don't have procedure followed, we have questions about the validity of the legislation that follows.

That would be my motion. I would add a date to the end of it as well, Madam Chair. Let's say those would be tabled by Wednesday.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Ms. Rempel Garner, can you please read the text so the clerk can capture it? He has not been able to get the text of the motion.

[Michelle Rempel, Conservative, Calgary Nose Hill, AB]

I move that, should any relevant communications with—insert the name of the witness for Wednesday here—exist wherein committee members or their staff distributed amendments to this individual, those communications be tabled with the committee prior to Wednesday's meeting.

Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

I have quite a few people on the speaking list.

Ms. Rempel Garner has moved a motion. I have Mr. Redekopp, Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe, Mr. Dhaliwal, Ms. Kwan and Mr. Genuis.

We'll go to Mr. Redekopp.

[Brad Redekopp, Conservative, Saskatoon West, SK]

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I was going to do what you already suggested: get the motion clearly read out. I want to make sure the clerk has the motion.

Do we need to suspend for a minute to get the motion?

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

Madam Chair, on a point of order, I bring a motion forward, before you suspend the meeting, to adjourn the meeting.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Mr. Dhaliwal has moved a motion to adjourn the meeting. It's non-debatable.

[Garnett Genuis, Conservative, Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB]

He didn't have the floor, though.

[Arielle Kayabaga, Liberal, London West, ON]

He's on the speaking list. He had the floor.

[Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, Bloc, Lac-Saint-Jean, QC]

Excuse me, Madam Chair, why…

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Mr. Redekopp finished.

[Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, Bloc, Lac-Saint-Jean, QC]

It's my turn next.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Mr. Dhaliwal, you cannot, on a point of order, move a motion to adjourn.

We'll go to Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe.

[Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, Bloc, Lac-Saint-Jean, QC]

I ask that we adjourn the meeting. I think that's enough for today.

To respond to my friend Ms. Rempel Garner, before doing that, I thought the Conservatives were going to be nice to me because I was nice to them.

First of all, on the motion and the way it was tabled, I didn't have the text in French. It's not written anywhere.

Then, if they start poking around in all of our staff, committee and MP communications, I guarantee you that the good times are going to roll. We can't start by acting like that, especially because we decided to have the witness, Mr. Emery, appear at the next meeting. Let's shed light on the subject based on what he says to the committee. After we've heard him explain what happened, we might have questions about communications between employees.

For now, can we stop this ridiculousness, adjourn the meeting and get ready for the next meeting with Mr. Emery?

I therefore request adjournment of the meeting.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Thank you, Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe.

Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe has moved a motion to adjourn the meeting. Is it the will of the committee to adjourn the meeting?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Liberal, Salma Zahid]

Okay. The meeting is adjourned.