International Trade Committee on June 1st, 2010

[The Acting Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

And that's where I'm coming back....

Mr. Julian, you may not like the answer you got, and that's okay--

[Peter Julian, NDP, Burnaby—New Westminster, BC]

It's not that I don't like the answer, Mr. Chair.

[The Acting Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

No, Mr. Julian, hear me out.

[Peter Julian, NDP, Burnaby—New Westminster, BC]

It's that every single--

[The Acting Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

You have commented on it.

[Peter Julian, NDP, Burnaby—New Westminster, BC]

Allow me to speak, Mr. Chair--

[The Acting Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

If you have another point that you want to bring up, Mr. Julian, then I will allow it because you have the floor. If you're going to harp on the same thing, I am moving on to Mr. Guimond, end of story.

[Peter Julian, NDP, Burnaby—New Westminster, BC]

I'm saying very clearly that every--

[The Acting Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

Are you moving on to another point?

[Peter Julian, NDP, Burnaby—New Westminster, BC]

No. I'm completing my point, Mr. Chair--

[The Acting Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

Okay. Mr. Guimond, you have the floor.

[Claude Guimond, Bloc, Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC]

Thank you.

[Peter Julian, NDP, Burnaby—New Westminster, BC]

--which I have the right to do.

[The Acting Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

No, you don't. Mr. Guimond now has the floor.

[Peter Julian, NDP, Burnaby—New Westminster, BC]

Yes, I do, to complete my point--

[The Acting Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

Mr. Guimond.

[Claude Guimond, Bloc, Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC]

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Don't worry; I don't intend to repeat what I already said. I am simply trying to understand. Mr. Julian's amendment strikes me as extremely positive.

There is something I wasn't able to understand by asking a positive question, so I will try to put it in the negative. Why don't the Conservatives and Liberal want to accept this amendment? I would like to understand why. So, with your permission, Mr. Chairman, I would like to put the question to Mr. Keddy and Mr. Brison, so that I can understand. Why will they not accept an amendment which I see as extremely positive?

[The Acting Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

Mr. Keddy, you've been asked a question by Mr. Guimond on why you don't want this amendment.

[Gerald Keddy, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margaret's, NS]

Because the amendment--I'll answer the question quite quickly--is redundant. It doesn't take into effect how the bill works. It doesn't take into effect how collective bargaining works.

Actually, it's abuse of members' privilege; it's a delaying tactic, and nothing more than a delaying tactic, in this process.

[The Acting Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

The amendment is pretty clear. I'm going to call the vote on the amendment.

All those in favour of the amendment?

[Peter Julian, NDP, Burnaby—New Westminster, BC]

Mr. Chair, you cannot call the vote when there are still members who want to speak to the amendment--

[An hon. member]

[Inaudible--Editor]...vote.

[Peter Julian, NDP, Burnaby—New Westminster, BC]

You cannot call the vote, as you know, Mr. Chair--

[The Acting Chair, Conservative, Larry Miller]

Do you have another issue to bring up? If you're going to be repetitive--

[Peter Julian, NDP, Burnaby—New Westminster, BC]

I'm not being repetitive, Mr. Chair, as you well know.