Justice Committee on Oct. 24th, 2018

Evidence of meeting #113 for Justice and Human Rights in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was agreed.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-75

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Shannon Davis-Ermuth Legal Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Policy Sector, Department of Justice

Tony Clement Parry Sound—Muskoka, CPC

Arif Virani Parkdale—High Park, Lib.

Matthew Taylor Acting Senior Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Policy Sector, Department of Justice

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Olivier Champagne

Clerk

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

Colin Fraser Liberal West Nova, NS

The bells are ringing.

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

Can I have unanimous consent to continue for five more minutes?

October 24th, 2018 / 5:30 p.m.

Conservative

Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON

Sometimes it's hard to get the buses here.

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

Would you rather suspend?

5:30 p.m.

Conservative

Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON

Yes.

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

Could I ask that everybody come back as soon as you can after the votes, please?

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

Ron McKinnon Liberal Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam, BC

Could we finish clause 61?

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

Yes. Could we have the vote on clause 61 and then come back?

5:30 p.m.

Parry Sound—Muskoka, CPC

Tony Clement

That's a reasonable suggestion.

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

Mr. McKinnon always comes up with reasonable suggestions.

(Clause 61 agreed to)

We will come back to a very important section, clause 62, as soon as we reconvene.

Mr. Rankin.

5:30 p.m.

NDP

Murray Rankin NDP Victoria, BC

Just to be clear, when are we finishing this evening?

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

At about ten to eight, I guess.

5:30 p.m.

Parry Sound—Muskoka, CPC

Tony Clement

Why not 7:30?

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

Because of the vote, it's taking.... I wanted to give a bit more time.

5:30 p.m.

Conservative

Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON

I'm leaving at 7:30.

5:30 p.m.

Parry Sound—Muskoka, CPC

Tony Clement

The notice was—

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

Fair enough. I can't keep you here after 7:30, if you don't want to. I thought we'd try to make up the time for the vote, but if you can't do it, you can't do it. We'll just stop at 7:30.

5:30 p.m.

Parry Sound—Muskoka, CPC

Tony Clement

I would prefer that, sir.

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

Colin Fraser Liberal West Nova, NS

We're not going to get through all of it anyway.

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

No. At this stage, no, we're not.

The meeting is suspended until we come back after the vote.

6:46 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

We will now continue our meeting of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights as we continue our clause-by-clause study of Bill C-75.

(On clause 62)

Clause 62 relates to the potential repeal of section 179 of the code. We have identical amendments X-37, LIB-3 and PV-6.

Ms. May is not here.

Mr. Rankin?

6:46 p.m.

NDP

Murray Rankin NDP Victoria, BC

I could move X-37.

6:46 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

If it's okay, Mr. Boissonnault would like to jointly move it with you.

Is that okay?

6:46 p.m.

Liberal

Randy Boissonnault Liberal Edmonton Centre, AB

So moved.

6:46 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather

I think both of you have a specific interest in this.