Evidence of meeting #18 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 preamble.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
If the issue is substantive, then let's have a vote on the substantive question.
The question is on amendment CPC-38.1.
(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Next we move to amendment CPC-39 from Mr. Kmiec.
Liberal
Colin Fraser Liberal West Nova, NS
Mr. Chair, I want to recognize that we're on Queen Street and I want to make sure we have enough time to get to the votes.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
You're absolutely right.
The question I'd like to ask the committee is, would you like to only come back after the third vote or do you want to come back in between two and three?
Is everybody good with that? The question is whether we come back between votes two and three, but they seem to say yes, we should come back.
Liberal
Colin Fraser Liberal West Nova, NS
The only thing I could propose, though, is that if some of us have to meet, maybe it's easier, if it's going to take 10, 15, or 20 minutes, to meet in Centre Block and not come back from there until after vote three.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
You mean, to work out the wording on the palliative care and....
Murray Rankin NDP Victoria, BC
Why don't we meet over there in any event and then see whether we can huddle, if we have a few minutes before or after, and then come back with this? Perhaps we can do both, in other words.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
We are now reconvening this meeting of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. We are resuming our work on the amendments to the preamble of Bill C-14.
Before we do so, I have a small housekeeping note.
Mr. Rankin, in the amendment that was just unanimously adopted—we had this discussion yesterday, and probably should have dealt with it at the time—the word “enactment” is not the right.... The clerk advises me we should put the word “act”.
NDP
Murray Rankin NDP Victoria, BC
That is perfectly fine with us. We struggled with the right word as well.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
Is everyone in agreement? He's going to administer the change, from “enactment” to “act”.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
Thank you; that's perfect.
Now we're on amendment CPC-39, from Mr. Kmiec. I'm not sure whether anyone wishes to put this one forward.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
There's no mover. We're going to move beyond amendment CPC-39. We'll move to amendment NDP-8.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
Right. I think you had done this in association with a different theme for the body—
NDP
Murray Rankin NDP Victoria, BC
—for the advance request. Since that didn't succeed, there's no purpose for this amendment.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
Amendment NDP-8, then, is not moved.
Then we move to amendment CPC-39.1.
Conservative
Ted Falk Conservative Provencher, MB
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is a motion to amend the preamble saying that where a person is able....
There are quite a few problematic things here that are going to create a problem. I'm just going to withdraw it.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
Thank you, because we would have had to drop the word “terminal”.
Then we move to amendments that everyone was working on related to palliative care.
I'm wondering who will be starting with that.
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
Can I ask for a short break for a few minutes while the drafters try to work together on this?
Perfect. We shall suspend.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Anthony Housefather
We're resuming.
I'm going to call on Mr. Rankin to read what I believe is a consensus resolution.