Evidence of meeting #127 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs in the 44th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was questions.
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NDP
Lori Idlout NDP Nunavut, NU
[Member spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:]
Thank you.
I move to amend the motion to read as follows:
That Minister Hajdu and Minister Vandal to be asked to return to the committee within two weeks for two hours to answer questions.
Conservative
Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON
I have just a quick question for clarification, Mr. Speaker.
Conservative
Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON
As a point of clarification, my text says “two sitting weeks”. I just want to clarify that is the case. It's not two weeks; it's two sitting weeks.
Thank you.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Patrick Weiler
Thank you very much, Mr. Schmale.
Members, you should have received the text of that motion in your inboxes. With that, are there any members who wish to speak on this amendment to the motion?
(Amendment agreed to: yeas 10; nays 1)
(Motion as amended agreed to: yeas 6; nays 5)
I understand that, at this point, Ms. Idlout has her hand up.
I will pass the floor over to you.
NDP
Lori Idlout NDP Nunavut, NU
[Member spoke in Inuktitut, interpreted as follows:]
Thank you.
First of all, I want to acknowledge that yesterday, and the day before, I was visiting Kimberly Murray, the special interlocutor. The office had a meeting, a conference, and it was dealing with heavy items and topics, so I expect questions to be answered properly.
I also wish to acknowledge that Senator Murray Sinclair is in the hospital. He is in our thoughts. Many people have him in their thoughts, because he's helped many people. I want to put that out there. To the family, we are thinking of you.
I will present a motion, which I submitted on October 30:
That the committee temporarily delay the start of clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-61 to allow for sufficient review of the large number of amendments proposed by all parties and to resume clause-by-clause consideration on Monday, November 4, 2024.
Thank you.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Patrick Weiler
Thank you, Ms. Idlout.
Do any members wish to speak to that?
Can we move to a vote?
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Patrick Weiler
It looks like we have consensus around the table here.
(Motion agreed to)
We will start clause-by-clause consideration on Monday.
Before we wrap today, I want to thank our officials for coming today, Mr. Fairbairn, Mr. Barbosa, Ms. Wilkinson and Ms. Blake. The committee is scheduled to end in about 20 minutes. I want to thank our officials, analysts and legislative clerks for being here.
There was some discussion about moving in camera to have a formal opportunity for members to ask questions, but given that we have our officials here, perhaps it's easier to do that informally if you have any questions on the many amendments that have been submitted. We will start our formal process of clause-by-clause on Monday.
For the awareness of members, we have secured additional resources on Monday, so we can go up to 7:30. I wanted to flag that now. There was some concern that time would be lost by not starting this today. I will ensure that the time we had today will be made up at that point, so I wanted to flag that for members in advance.
Thank you, everybody, for being here today, especially our officials.
The meeting is adjourned.
