Evidence of meeting #36 for International Trade in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit
No. I'm saying you have a choice. If you moved away from the recorded votes, there would be time for debate on the motions.
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NDP
Peter Julian NDP Burnaby—New Westminster, BC
The recorded votes are important, Mr. Chair, so what you'll have to do is advise the committee that we cannot finish by midnight and that we should continue that work on another date.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit
We have no alternative. The motion we passed goes to that.
Go ahead, Mr. Eyking.
6:45 p.m.
Liberal
Mark Eyking Liberal Sydney—Victoria, NS
Mr. Julian likes to be done at 8 o'clock. There was a suggestion brought before us this afternoon that we group some of these clauses together. We could expedite this process if we grouped some of these clauses together, debated them, and voted on them accordingly.
6:45 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit
Mr. Eyking, let's move ahead on the votes. There wasn't a motion there.
We're now voting on NDP amendment 42.
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NDP
Peter Julian NDP Burnaby—New Westminster, BC
This is absolutely absurd.
I have a point of order, Mr. Chair. I have a point of order.
(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])
6:50 p.m.
NDP
Peter Julian NDP Burnaby—New Westminster, BC
Mr. Chair, it's absolutely outrageous not to have this paltry little sixty seconds of debate that is incumbent on each of these amendments. This is absolutely beyond anything that has been conceived before.
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Conservative
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NDP
Peter Julian NDP Burnaby—New Westminster, BC
I would like a ruling from the head table as to whether—
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Conservative
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NDP
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Conservative
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NDP
Peter Julian NDP Burnaby—New Westminster, BC
This is absolutely unbelievable.
(Clause 65 agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
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NDP
Peter Julian NDP Burnaby—New Westminster, BC
This is Stalinistic, to say the least, Mr. Chair. This is absolutely unacceptable to not allow debate on any of the amendments, to not even consider the clauses. This is absolutely the most bizarre and inappropriate committee I have ever seen.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit
The motion is carried. We now go to clause 66, NDP-43.
Let's go to the recorded division.
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An hon. member
Yes.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit
(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Shall clause 66 carry? We'll go to the recorded division, please.
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NDP
Peter Julian NDP Burnaby—New Westminster, BC
I absolutely refuse to answer. This is a complete betrayal of democracy.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit
Another abstention by Mr. Julian.
(Clause 66 agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
We are now at NDP-44 on clause 67. Let's go to the recorded vote.