Evidence of meeting #80 for Natural Resources in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was point.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Miriam Burke  Committee Clerk
Clerk of the Committee  Mr. Patrick Williams
Marc-Olivier Girard  Committee Clerk
Thomas Bigelow  Committee Clerk

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

Go to the vote, please.

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Liberal

John Aldag Liberal Cloverdale—Langley City, BC

Could we use parliamentary language?

6 p.m.

Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

Point of order, Chair.

The Clerk of the Committee Mr. Patrick Williams

The question is: shall the ruling of the chair be sustained?

6 p.m.

Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

Point of order.

6 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal George Chahal

We are in a vote.

(Ruling of the chair sustained: yeas 7; nays 0)

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Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

Chair, I have a point of order.

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

Point of order, Chair—

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Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

Point of order—

The Chair Liberal George Chahal

The ruling is sustained.

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

Point of order—

6:05 p.m.

Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

Chair, point of order.

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

Point of order, Chair—

The Chair Liberal George Chahal

We will now go to a point of order—

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Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

Chair, I have a point of order.

An hon. member

He was first.

6:05 p.m.

Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

I've been trying to get your attention for some time.

The Chair Liberal George Chahal

A vote was under way.

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Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

A vote was not under way.

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

Yes, it was.

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Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

I was saying “point of order” from long before the vote began.

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

No, you did not. We—

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Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

You know that; I know that and anybody reviewing the tape here knows that.

I have a point of order, Chair.

The Chair Liberal George Chahal

Mr. Angus, on a point of order—

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

On a point of order, Chair, given the fact that I've heard some very ugly language from the Conservatives—