Evidence of meeting #1 for National Defence in the 41st Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was committees.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
I have a subamendment to the amendment that it goes Liberal, NDP, Conservative in the third round. Let's vote on that first, and then let's deal with the question.
All those in favour of having the Liberals first on--
NDP
Christine Moore NDP Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
Point of order. Could you repeat precisely what it is we're voting on now?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
We're voting on the subamendment moved by Mr. McKay, that the third round be--
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
Yes. The third round would be in the order of Liberal, NDP, Conservative.
Liberal
John McKay Liberal Scarborough—Guildwood, ON
My simple argument is that you'll have gone all the way through all of the NDP questions on that.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
We're asking the question on the subamendment for the third round, with the Liberals first.
(Amendment negatived)
We're back to the amendment moved by Mr. Harris, with the third round being NDP, Liberal, Conservative.
(Amendment agreed to)
(Motion as amended agreed to) [See Minutes of Proceedings]
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
I'll have that discussion now, because that wasn't really a point of order. It was about whether or not we have a meeting on Thursday.
Comments, Mr. Alexander, on that issue.
Conservative
Chris Alexander Conservative Ajax—Pickering, ON
On the point of order, it's important, from Mr. Harris's point of view, that we complete the basic business we had today, the routine motions, so that if something happens on Thursday, and we don't end up with a meeting, we would be ready to go. If we could have a meeting and deal with this other business, I don't think there would be an objection on our side. But I think it will take consultation among us and with the chair to come to that determination.
Liberal
John McKay Liberal Scarborough—Guildwood, ON
Rather than the full committee meeting, can we have a subcommittee meeting? The issues raised by Jack and others are essentially procedural in content, and it seems to be appropriate for the subcommittee.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
Okay. That's what I'll suggest then. That's a good way to deal with it.
We'll have a subcommittee meeting in here on Thursday morning to deal with the issues raised by Mr. Harris. I'd also ask Mr. McKay to draft language to go around the issue of translation. We can look at it in the fall, but just so we can have something on dealing with substantial costs of the translation of huge documents.
What that, can I have a motion to adjourn? Thank you.
We're out of here.