Evidence of meeting #3 for Public Safety and National Security in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was guns.
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Bloc
Kristina Michaud Bloc Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, QC
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Do we have a written copy of the amended motion?
I only had the first version and I have another version that may be proposed by the Conservatives. I just want to make sure that I understand what was mentioned, what has been removed and perhaps added.
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Liberal
Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON
Madame Michaud, the third paragraph in my original motion, which begins with “That on June 21”, is how the motion begins. Then there's the wording that the Conservative Party proposed, where it said “so the amended motion would read”, and the remainder of the motion I proposed is that sentence exactly as it was proposed by the Conservative Party, so “that the committee instruct the chair”.
It's one paragraph from the original motion to give some context, and then the wording would be, “that the committee instruct the Chair to report the firearms regulations referred by the Minister of Public Safety on Monday, June 21, 2021 to the House unamended at the earliest opportunity.”
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Liberal
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Bloc
Kristina Michaud Bloc Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, QC
Mr. Chair, I have a another question, if I may.
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Bloc
Kristina Michaud Bloc Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, QC
Thank you for the clarification, Ms. Damoff.
I only have one question, on the term “unamended”, or non modifié. What does it mean? I was under the impression that you can't amend a regulation, so I wonder what that means in the motion.
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Liberal
Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON
Thanks, Chair.
I think the word may be redundant, but in essence it's saying that the committee is taking those regulations as they were referred to us—important regulations around having a licence to purchase a firearm and also businesses recording the firearms that they're selling. The word “unamended” is probably redundant, but I don't think it hurts to have it in there.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Jim Carr
Members of the committee are clear. There has been notice given for this motion.
Is there any other commentary?
Ms. Dancho, go ahead.
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Conservative
Raquel Dancho Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul, MB
Thank you very much.
I just want to extend my thanks to Ms. Damoff for neutralizing the language in this motion. We are happy to work together and to avoid personal attacks and charged language. We know that all members of this committee certainly value public safety, but we approach this issue of violence and firearms and how to solve it from very different perspectives.
I look forward to a very robust debate with my colleagues on that, but I appreciate that we are setting a tone and working together to amend this to have more neutral language so that we can move forward with that tone and ensure our discussions remain policy-oriented and professional in that regard. I will endeavour to uphold that, and committee members can hold me to that as well.
I just want to say thank you to members of the committee for agreeing to amend this so the language is more neutral.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Jim Carr
Thank you.
That spirit of collaboration and co-operation is very much appreciated by all of us.
We have a motion. Due notice was given for that motion.
Is there unanimous consent?
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Some hon. members
No.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Jim Carr
We will proceed with a recorded division.
(Motion agreed to: yeas 7; nays 4)
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Jim Carr
Thank you very much.
Is there other committee business? Mr. Clerk, is there a hand up?
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The Clerk
Yes. We have Mr. MacGregor, Mr. McKinnon and Mr. Noormohamed.
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NDP
Alistair MacGregor NDP Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, BC
Mr. Chair, I just had a very quick question for you. I just wanted to have your confirmation that you're going to be re-tabling the report on systemic racism in policing tomorrow during routine proceedings.
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Liberal
Ron McKinnon Liberal Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam, BC
Thank you, Chair.
I just wasn't sure I heard the results of the vote. I assume the motion passed.
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Liberal