International Trade Committee on June 1st, 2010

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

Monsieur Laforest.

[Jean-Yves Laforest, Bloc, Saint-Maurice—Champlain, QC]

Point of order, Mr. Chairman. I don't see how an amendment can be moved to clause 15 when we just passed it. That amendment cannot be tabled now; we just passed clause 15 on a recorded vote. It was passed, I voted against, and there were three of us who voted against.

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

Mr. Julian, you have point of order.

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

Mr. Chair, we've adopted clause 15. We move on to clause 16.

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

Well, you do what you like, but the committee is going to vote on a new clause called 15.1, or whatever you want to call it. But it's a different clause from what we've already voted on; it is a new clause. It was submitted just as your amendments have been submitted. The motion that was passed at the beginning of the meeting said that all of the amendments submitted shall be voted on after six hours. We're in the middle of that.

Thank you for your comments. It's a recorded vote on proposed clause 15.1.

[An hon. member]

We have another amendment, sir.

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

I'm not sure we can take any other amendments at this point if they have not already been submitted.

Now we'll go to clause 15.1, as we are referring to Liberal amendment 1. It's actually a new clause.

(Amendment agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

Look at us go.

(Clause 16 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

Now, may I note that we have a lot of amendments and clauses to go. We have 94 amendments and we have 48 clauses.

The next number of clauses, that is, from 17 through to about 46, have no amendments. I wonder, because there is no conflict here and we've had adequate debate, if I could ask unanimous consent of the committee to group the next 30 clauses, from 17 to 46, and vote on them as one.

Do I have unanimous consent of the committee to do that, in the goodwill expression of the committee? We've all been cooperating so eloquently.

Mr. Julian.

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

No. I'm sorry, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

Could we have a recorded vote on that request?

[Some hon. members]

Oh, oh!

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

All right.

(Clause 17 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 18 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 19 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 20 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 21 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 22 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 23 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 24 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 25 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 26 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 27 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 28 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 29 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 30 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 31 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 32 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 33 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 34 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 35 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 36 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 37 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 38 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 39 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 40 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 41 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 42 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 43 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 44 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 45 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 46 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

(Clause 47 agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

If there is no objection, I will call the next one, new clause 47.1. This is an NDP clause.

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

I don't know if you can do that.

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

Shall new clause 47.1 carry?

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

As a point of clarification, Mr. Chair, this is the NDP amendment on 47.1.

[Scott Brison, Liberal, Kings—Hants, NS]

We can't have a 47.1; we've already passed clause 47.

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

We've had that concern. We did pass clause 47. It carried, and we're now on 47.1, a new and improved clause submitted by the NDP.

For the sake of clarity to the committee, this would be NDP amendment 8, otherwise known as new clause 47.1, the clause previously known as NDP-8.

We have a recorded vote.

(Amendment negatived: nays 6; yeas 3)

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

We are now going to NDP amendment 9, otherwise known as subclause 47.1(1), for further confusion. That is one and the same.

(Amendment negatived: nays 6; yeas 3)

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

I'm sorry. The amendment is defeated.

(On clause 48--Order in council )

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

To continue the fun, we'll now go to clause 48.

Let me tell you for clarification that we have a couple of amendments on clause 48. We'll vote on the NDP amendment 10 first. Then we'll vote on the Liberal amendment L-2. Then we'll vote on the clause.

The first vote with regard to clause 48 is proposed amendment NDP-10.

Shall NDP-10 carry?

(Amendment negatived: nays 6; yeas 3)

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

NDP-10 fails.

The next amendment to clause 48 would be the Liberal amendment L-2. Shall L-2 carry?

(Amendment agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3 )

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

The amendment carried, so we are now voting on amended clause 48.

Shall clause 48 carry as amended?

(Clause 48 as amended agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3

[The Chair, Conservative, Lee Richardson]

Now we'll move to the schedules. We have no proposed amendments on Schedule 1.

Shall schedule 1 carry?

(Schedule 1 agreed to: yeas 7; nays 3)

(On schedule 2)

Moving along to schedule 2, we have a few amendments here--no more than 80-some. I wonder if we could get the unanimous consent of the committee to group NDP amendments 11 to 96.

Can we have unanimous consent to group NDP amendments 11 to 96?

Mr. Julian.