Thank you.
Have you sent the motion?
Evidence of meeting #156 for Public Accounts in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was edc.
A video is available from Parliament.
Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
It is on its way right now. The clerk will receive it very shortly.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
All right.
I will suspend in a second.
Again, for the witnesses, perhaps you can just hang tight. Again, you're welcome to stretch your legs. You'll hear the meeting being gavelled back, but it will probably be about, again, 10 or 15 minutes before I come back to you, if the debate goes on.
Again, I will suspend this meeting until the motion is distributed to members.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
I'll bring the meeting back to order.
Ms. Khalid, would you like to speak to your...? No, I'm sorry. I'm getting ahead of myself. Just one second....
Ms. Khalid, unfortunately, I am ruling the motion out of order, not because there's anything wrong with it as a motion itself, but it is not related to the study at hand. Tangentially, you have one line, but it encompasses all kinds of committee business that isn't related to today's meeting.
Do you have a point of order, Ms. Khalid? Go ahead.
Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
Well, it's not really a point of order, but I will say, Chair, that this is absolutely, 100% related to what this committee is. The Auditor General is here with eight reports. We're not limited to what one report says or not, and a lot of what I have put forward in this motion is to help us and guide us in getting through a lot of these reports.
With that, Chair, I challenge your ruling.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
All right. The chair is challenged.
Please take the roll call, Clerk.
(Ruling of the chair overturned: nays 6; yeas 4)
The motion stands.
I'm going to come back to the witnesses shortly. We'll see where we end up here.
Ms. Khalid, would you like the floor again?
Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
Thank you very much, Chair.
I realize now, as I read the text of the motion, that I have made a bit of an error in point 4. We've already heard from Mr. Andrew Noseworthy. I would like to seek unanimous consent from the committee to replace Mr. Noseworthy with Doug McConnachie.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
Is there unanimous consent to swap out Mr. Noseworthy, to remove him from the motion and replace him with Mr. McConnachie?
Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
No. I'd like to hear from him, actually, so I support your original one.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
All right. Does anyone disagree with that?
All right. Very good—
Conservative
Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB
No. I said that I'm not granting UC, because I want to hear from Mr. Noseworthy—
Conservative
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
Okay. Very good.
UC is denied, Ms. Khalid.
You still have the floor, please.
Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
Thank you, Chair.
Well, I'm sure that my colleagues are welcome to move that motion, should they so please.
I would also like to make an amendment based on conversations with my colleagues on this motion.
December 4th, 2024 / 6:15 p.m.
Conservative
Liberal
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
Thank you, but you're on the list.
Ms. Khalid, you have the floor.
Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
Thank you very much, Chair.
As I said earlier, I think it is important for us to have a very clear understanding of how we are going to move forward with the very important reports of the Auditor General, but then also to discuss what is pending within the public accounts committee, which is what point 8 in my motion also deals with.
I'm hoping for the support of all my colleagues on this and look forward to getting some really important work done and helping to support the Auditor General and our Parliament in what has been produced before us and in what we hear from stakeholders and from experts on these very important issues.
Thanks, Chair.
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
Ms. Sinclair-Desgagné will be next.
Then we will have Mr. Morantz and then Ms. Yip.
Conservative
John Nater Conservative Perth—Wellington, ON
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I will make an amendment towards the end of my comments, but I want to start off with a few observations, first and foremost, on point 9: “Notwithstanding a meeting called pursuant to Standing Order 106(4), no meetings of the committee or subcommittee be held during Parliament's adjournment from December 18, 2024 to January 26, 2025”.
I know that there are a lot of Canadians out there who take one or two days off for Christmas in the holiday season, and some may take a full week off, but it looks like the Liberal Party wants to take a full six weeks off for the holiday season—
Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
On a point of order, Mr. Chair, we're not taking that time off.