Official Languages Committee on Aug. 12th, 2020

[Matthew Green, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

Let's make sure it's a point of order, though, because I've sat through four meetings of this. Please name the point of order.

[Patricia Lattanzio, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

Okay.

[The Chair, Liberal, Emmanuel Dubourg]

Go ahead on you point of order, Madame Lattanzio.

[Patricia Lattanzio, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

The point of order is quite simple. We're making all kinds of assumptions here—

[Matthew Green, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

That's not a point of order. That's debate.

[Patricia Lattanzio, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

That's not a debate. You're bringing in what's happening in other committees with regard to testimony—

[Matthew Green, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

That's debate.

[Patricia Lattanzio, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

—that is being rendered at different levels, conflict of interest—

[Matthew Green, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

You're a lawyer. You should know better.

[The Chair, Liberal, Emmanuel Dubourg]

Ms. Lattanzio, I'm sorry, but that's not a point of order.

I'll go back to Mr. Green.

[Patricia Lattanzio, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

We are drawing conclusions when it's not—

[Matthew Green, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

Mr. Chair, I'm going to go on the record and say I've sat through four days of this. I've been on the Hill for six months. I'm a former city councillor and I know the basic rules of order, and to use it as an attempt to continue to disrupt—

[Patricia Lattanzio, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

I'm going to—

[Matthew Green, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

—my democratic right to be at this table is also—

You can't just continue to disrupt me.

[Patricia Lattanzio, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

I have a point of privilege.

[The Chair, Liberal, Emmanuel Dubourg]

Go ahead, Ms. Lattanzio.

[Patricia Lattanzio, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

We all know each other, Mr. Green, and this is not about “I was” and “I know” and I whatever. I'm a former city councillor myself, a school board trustee—

[Matthew Green, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

That's also not point of privilege.

[Patricia Lattanzio, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

Yes, it is, because you are saying—

[Matthew Green, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

That's not a point of privilege.

[Patricia Lattanzio, Liberal, Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC]

You are saying that I don't know what the rules are. That is my point of privilege.

[Matthew Green, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

I didn't name anybody.

These are tactics.

[The Chair, Liberal, Emmanuel Dubourg]

Please,

Ms. Lattanzio had the floor.

[Matthew Green, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

I sat through filibusters, so could I please have the floor back?

[The Chair, Liberal, Emmanuel Dubourg]

Go ahead, Mr. Green.