Official Languages Committee on May 31st, 2007

[Richard Nadeau, Bloc, Gatineau, QC]

Two minutes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Steven Blaney]

Agreed. Then, we can put the question.

[Pablo Rodriguez, Liberal, Honoré-Mercier, QC]

Would you agree to vote right after?

[Sylvie Boucher, Conservative, Beauport—Limoilou, QC]

I won't say I'm not, but I would like to speak to my people first.

[Pablo Rodriguez, Liberal, Honoré-Mercier, QC]

We will have to vote after that.

[Sylvie Boucher, Conservative, Beauport—Limoilou, QC]

I am a woman, so I would like—

[Pierre Lemieux, Conservative, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON]

We hope.

[Pablo Rodriguez, Liberal, Honoré-Mercier, QC]

A gentlemen's agreement, is that right?

[Sylvie Boucher, Conservative, Beauport—Limoilou, QC]

For once, I will say yes to a gentlemen's agreement.

[The Chair, Conservative, Steven Blaney]

Agreed. We have a women's agreement. I am suspending the meeting for several minutes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Steven Blaney]

We are resuming our deliberations. So where are we?

[Richard Nadeau, Bloc, Gatineau, QC]

We are voting on the amendment.

[The Chair, Conservative, Steven Blaney]

Is the committee reading for the question on Mr. Lemieux's amendment?

[Some hon. members]

Yes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Steven Blaney]

Is the committee ready?

We must now vote on the amendment.

[Sylvie Boucher, Conservative, Beauport—Limoilou, QC]

Could you read the amendment?

[The Chair, Conservative, Steven Blaney]

We will reread the amendment.

Mr. Lemieux moves that all words following "Acadie" be deleted from Mr. Nadeau's amendment.

(Amendment negatived)

[The Chair, Conservative, Steven Blaney]

Is the committee ready to vote on Mr. Nadeau's motion, which reads as follows:

That the Committee hold four meetings (or more, if needed) on the subject of the Court Challenges Program, including representatives of Anglophone organizations in Quebec, one meeting with the Commissioner of Official Languages, to be held by June 7, 2007 at the latest, one meeting with the Minister responsible for la Francophonie and Official Languages, and one meeting with la Société Nationale de l’Acadie, and with the Société Radio-Canada.

(Motion carried unanimously)

[The Chair, Conservative, Steven Blaney]

Bravo! Congratulations. There was—

[Sylvie Boucher, Conservative, Beauport—Limoilou, QC]

No, it is all right.

[The Chair, Conservative, Steven Blaney]

—a notice of motion—

[Sylvie Boucher, Conservative, Beauport—Limoilou, QC]

Mr. so and so does not want it. What do you expect a girl do to?

[The Chair, Conservative, Steven Blaney]

The clerk says that I can ask the committee members if they want to adjourn.

[Yvon Godin, NDP, Acadie—Bathurst, NB]

First, I would like to know who next Tuesday's witnesses will be. I recommend that we invite the witnesses who were here on May 17 last. I would like them to come back.

[Jean-Claude D'Amours, Liberal, Madawaska—Restigouche, NB]

That is what I recommended in the first place.