Evidence of meeting #23 for Official Languages in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was point.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
It's up to the members of the committee to decide the agenda of the committee.
Conservative
Mike Wallace Conservative Burlington, ON
But we're in the middle of the debate on it. How does it all of a sudden end without starting up again?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
This is a dilatory motion. It is aptly named. Mr. Wallace, it is a motion that, in a way, enables us to talk about another issue, if that is the will of the committee.
Conservative
Shelly Glover Conservative Saint Boniface, MB
I haven't had a single point of order, and as soon as I ask for one, you want to deny me my right, Monsieur Godin. You've had four already. Please allow me to have the right to speak.
NDP
Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB
Mr. Chair, I hope she addresses you if she wants to be respectful to this committee, instead of addressing me.
Conservative
Shelly Glover Conservative Saint Boniface, MB
I'm trying my best to be respectful, Monsieur le Président, but they're making it very, very difficult.
In any event, what I'd like to know is.... I'm not quite understanding the decision that has been made, because after the motion that we were discussing--
Conservative
Shelly Glover Conservative Saint Boniface, MB
I can't even hear.
After the motion that was brought forward, which was on the orders of the day, there are other things on the orders of the day. In fact, in camera, there's a motion to address the report that he wants to study.
So how is it that we can circumvent a motion that's already in process with a brand-new motion that also cuts off the motion to adjust that very topic? Because the motion of Monsieur Généreux addresses the report: that we want to extend the report and we want to continue to study immigration because it's not finished.
How does that happen? Please explain that to me so that I understand what I'm voting on. I cannot vote without being informed.
Liberal
Lise Zarac Liberal LaSalle—Émard, QC
Mr. Chair, you have just read the regulation. They should understand it, I feel. Please call the question.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
Ms. Glover, after Mr. Wallace's point, Mr. Bélanger moved a dilatory motion that requires a decision.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
As, I mentioned, it is a motion designed to dispose of the original question, your motion in the case before us, either for the time being or permanently. A dilatory motion does not require notice, nor can it be amended or debated; it must be put to a vote immediately.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
I am just clarifying that, in the case of the motion before us, which is admissible, the committee must move to another item of business, the study of the report in this case.
Conservative
Shelly Glover Conservative Saint Boniface, MB
Don't we go to the next item in the orders of the day?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Steven Blaney
Here is what I read: “This motion results in the matter then under consideration [your motion in this case] being replaced by the order of business proposed in the motion [the report, in our case]. If the motion is carried, the committee immediately to the order [studying the report] referred to in the motion.”
I feel that describes the situation well, so I am going to call the question on Mr. Bélanger's dilatory motion.
Conservative
Shelly Glover Conservative Saint Boniface, MB
Are we going to proceed to the next item on the agenda, as he proposed? That is my question.
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