Evidence of meeting #2 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs in the 41st Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
I do apologize. I don't want to be part of the problem. That was a consensus. We have completed that. It's now in place.
Mr. Rafferty.
NDP
John Rafferty NDP Thunder Bay—Rainy River, ON
Mr. Chair, if we're finished with that one now, I'd like to make a motion that we accept routine motions 4 through 9, as written. Can we do that?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
We can do that, but there is one on which you may want to seek consensus, at least from your own side.
NDP
John Rafferty NDP Thunder Bay—Rainy River, ON
Well, if you want to do each of them separately, okay.
NDP
John Rafferty NDP Thunder Bay—Rainy River, ON
We're on routine motions 4 through 8.
I would like to move that we accept routine motions 4 through 8 as they are written.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
The motion is to accept them in their entirety from 4 through 8. Are there questions with regard to that motion?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
Can we move to a vote with regard to accepting routine motions 4 through 8 as they're written?
Liberal
Carolyn Bennett Liberal St. Paul's, ON
Regarding number 6, maybe for clarification from the clerk, in terms of the two, if somebody needs an attendant because they have a disability, is that included? Is that a call you can make yourself without it being in the standing orders?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin
So we have conceded routine motions through to number 8.
On number 9, does somebody want to move a motion?
Ms. Duncan.
NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
Yes, I would like to move a motion on notice of motions, that 24 hours' notice be required for any substantive motion to be considered by the committee, unless the substantive motion relates directly to business then under consideration; and that the notice of motion be filed with the clerk of the committee and distributed to members in both official languages.
If I may speak to that, Mr. Chair, it was my experience--and as I recall it might even have been my error--that in my previous committee I suggested a longer period of notice. It ended up greatly inconveniencing the business of the committee.
There may well be many occasions on which all the committee members would like to move more expeditiously on a matter. Say, for example, a motion is tabled to hear from the minister on the estimates and nobody has brought to the attention of the chair that the timeline is almost up. We would not be able to consider and vote on that motion in a timely enough fashion to actually hear the minister. There may be a case involving officials from the department and so forth regarding a matter that suddenly comes upon us.
My guess is that in most cases the committee will agree to refer a matter to the steering committee if the motion relates to a substantive matter anyway. But I think we should allow ourselves the 24 hours, which, I understand, is not a day, right? It's until the next meeting. Am I correct in the calculation?
I just think that I unnecessarily and in an uninformed way actually recommended that there be a longer time period, and we've discovered in our committee that requiring a longer time period for consideration of a motion can sometimes be a disadvantage to the workings of the committee.
Conservative
NDP
Conservative
