International Trade Committee on Nov. 7th, 2006

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.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-24, An Act to impose a charge on the export of certain softwood lumber products to the United States and a charge on refunds of certain duty deposits paid to the United States, to authorize certain payments, to amend the Export and Import Permits Act and to amend other Acts as a consequence

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Dennis Seebach Director, Administration and Technology Services, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Marc Toupin Procedural Clerk

Clerk

Mary McMahon Senior Counsel, Legal Services Branch, Canada Revenue Agency

Michael Solursh Counsel, Trade Law Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Cindy Negus Manager, Legislative Policy Directorate, Canada Revenue Agency

Paul Robertson Director General, North America Trade Policy, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

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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.

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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.

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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])

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