Official Languages Committee on Aug. 12th, 2020

Evidence of meeting #5 for Official Languages in the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.

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On the agenda

Meeting Requested by Four Members of the Committee to Discuss their Request to Undertake a Study of the Government’s Decision to Select WE Charity, an Anglophone Organization, to Implement the Canada Student Service Grant (CSSG)

MPs speaking

Emmanuella Lambropoulos

Also speaking

1 p.m.

NDP

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.

1 p.m.

Liberal

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

Okay.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Emmanuel Dubourg

Go ahead on you point of order, Madame Lattanzio.

1 p.m.

Liberal

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—

1 p.m.

NDP

Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

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

1 p.m.

Liberal

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—

1 p.m.

NDP

Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

That's debate.

1 p.m.

Liberal

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

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

1 p.m.

NDP

Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

You're a lawyer. You should know better.

1 p.m.

Liberal

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.

1 p.m.

Liberal

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

We are drawing conclusions when it's not—

1 p.m.

NDP

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—

1 p.m.

Liberal

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

I'm going to—

1 p.m.

NDP

Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

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

You can't just continue to disrupt me.

1 p.m.

Liberal

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

I have a point of privilege.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Emmanuel Dubourg

Go ahead, Ms. Lattanzio.

1 p.m.

Liberal

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—

1 p.m.

NDP

Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

That's also not point of privilege.

1 p.m.

Liberal

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

Yes, it is, because you are saying—

1 p.m.

NDP

Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

That's not a point of privilege.

1 p.m.

Liberal

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.

1 p.m.

NDP

Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

I didn't name anybody.

These are tactics.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Emmanuel Dubourg

Please,

Ms. Lattanzio had the floor.

1 p.m.

NDP

Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

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

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Emmanuel Dubourg

Go ahead, Mr. Green.