Evidence of meeting #134 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 farrant.
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Liberal
Ron McKinnon Liberal Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam, BC
This amendment clarifies what is meant by medical or “health care professional”, again to prevent it from being too narrowly interpreted.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
This actually adds a definition of who is covered by the bill: those who are providing medical or psychiatric treatment, therapy or counselling and are entitled to do so under the laws of the province.
Basically it shows who is covered by the bill. I think it is a good addition.
Are you okay with that, Mr. Cooper?
Conservative
Michael Cooper Conservative St. Albert—Edmonton, AB
Yes.
(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
That was carried unanimously.
Are there any other amendments, colleagues, to clause 1?
Not seeing any, may I ask all those in favour of clause 1 carrying to please put up your hand?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
Yes, as amended by both amendments.
(Clause 1 as amended agreed to)
(On clause 2)
Then we have a new clause 2, the coming-into-force provisions, which is LIB-3.
Mr. McKinnon.
Liberal
Ron McKinnon Liberal Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam, BC
It just adds a coming-into-force provision to give the provinces and territories time to do whatever they need to do to implement this.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
As Mr. Cooper said, it's for the federal government to hopefully make known to the provinces and territories these changes, and for us to publicize that for the medical community, the psychiatric community and so forth.
(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
As I understand it, because we carried the amendment, which is a new clause 2, we don't have a separate vote on clause 2 because that's carried by the amendment.
Colleagues, shall the title of the bill carry?
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
Shall we order a reprint of the bill as amended for the use of the House at report stage?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
Colleagues, I want to congratulate everyone on this bill.
Mr. Cooper, congratulations on having your private member's bill fly through committee faster than any other.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
Once again, Mr. Taylor, thank you for joining us, and to everyone involved, thank you.
You were grilled today.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
We have some colleagues who are coming for the next part of our meeting at 9:45, so we'll briefly suspend the meeting until they arrive. We'll resume our discussions in camera.
Thank you.
[Proceedings continue in camera]
