Evidence of meeting #23 for International Trade in the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
Conservative
Adam Chambers Conservative Simcoe North, ON
Yes, a brief suspension, maybe until the top of the hour, and that would give us some opportunity to discuss our relevant motions.
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
I'm calling the meeting back to order.
We've all received a copy of a motion talking about adding up to three associate members per party at committees.
Not seeing any objection, we will adopt that motion to add the three additional associate members when necessary to the committee.
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Liberal
Yasir Naqvi Liberal Ottawa Centre, ON
Thank you, Chair.
We have a sort of programming motion, if I can call it that, to present. It brings together a few different motions that have been tabled at this committee and will allow us to do our work in a thoughtful way.
Liberal
Bloc
Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay Bloc Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot—Acton, QC
Sorry to interrupt you, but this concerns a motion recently distributed. Incidentally, I've had one pending since December and another one since early February.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
This is an updated motion; it's the same motion. They just changed the date.
Bloc
Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay Bloc Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot—Acton, QC
Yes, I know.
Will we be able to proceed with the two motions that I submitted a long time ago? I would have preferred that they be handled first. However, that's okay, as long as you tell me that we'll be proceeding with them right afterwards.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
The motion adding associate members has already been adopted by everyone.
Mr. Naqvi signalled that he wanted the floor.
You have the floor, Mr. Naqvi. Please proceed.
Liberal
Yasir Naqvi Liberal Ottawa Centre, ON
Thank you, Chair.
This motion has been circulated. If you like, I can read the motion in its entirety as well. If not, everyone has an English and French version of this motion, which essentially adopts a work plan that puts in order—
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
We're going to suspend for a couple of minutes until we are sure that everybody has the motion in front of them.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
I call the meeting back to order.
You had the floor, Mr. Naqvi. I go back to you.
Liberal
Yasir Naqvi Liberal Ottawa Centre, ON
Chair, I think you probably will find agreement among all members to adopt a work plan for this committee. We've done some remarkable work, and I want to thank all of the members for the work we've done.
This motion incorporates the priorities of all of the members.
Conservative
Adam Chambers Conservative Simcoe North, ON
I appreciate the work that's been done. I would just mention that we have the CUSMA study open.
This work plan does not take us all the way to June or to the end of the session.
My recommendation would be that we leave some time to include a meeting on CUSMA at a regular interval to keep that study going, but we're happy with the work plan as it appears.
I'll seek some clarification. There's a section at the very end of the motion that indicates a proposed ordering. The paragraph after number six in the motion talks about the listed order of the studies. It would be my preference to leave scheduling open to your judgment. That's notwithstanding what it says in the motion. It's in order to ensure that we have meetings and witnesses so that you can start—
Conservative
Adam Chambers Conservative Simcoe North, ON
—a study at any time of your choosing. We can discuss that among the parties, but that would be a recommendation. The chair could use her discretion to deviate from that list as necessary.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
I'm so glad you have a little bit of confidence.
Thank you all very much. I move adjournment.