Public Safety Committee on Dec. 13th, 2022

[Kristina Michaud, Bloc, Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia, QC]

It's in the motion. It's at the end of the—

[Glen Motz, Conservative, Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB]

It's in the motion. Yes, it's “upon the completion”.

Thank you very much.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Seeing no further interventions, I will ask the clerk to call the vote on Ms. Dancho's amendment as subamended by Madame Michaud.

(Amendment as amended agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0)

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Thank you, Mr. Clerk.

It seems we are hurtling toward an agreement here.

Mr. Lloyd has a point order. I'm sorry. It doesn't have to be a point of order. At this point, we're open to.... We passed Ms. Dancho's amendment as amended by Madame Michaud. We are back to the final vote.

Is there any further discussion on where we are?

Go ahead, Mr. Lloyd.

[Dane Lloyd, Conservative, Sturgeon River—Parkland, AB]

No. I'll cede the floor.

We're at the final vote right now. Are we doing another vote?

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

If there's no further debate, that is correct.

Ms. Damoff, did you have an intervention?

[Pam Damoff, Liberal, Oakville North—Burlington, ON]

Chair, we're finished with the vote.

I wanted to talk about what we're doing moving forward, such as a deadline for witnesses, finishing the Russia study—

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

We have one more vote. We have to vote on the original motion as amended multiple times.

[Pam Damoff, Liberal, Oakville North—Burlington, ON]

Okay. I apologize.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

As we unwind ourselves from this bunch of amendments, we have this final vote.

The final vote is on Madame Michaud's original motion as subamended, and so on and so forth, to the point where we just passed all the subamendments.

(Motion as amended agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Thank you, all. We seem to have reached a resolution on this matter.

At this point, I propose to the committee that you all have your witness lists available to the clerk by the close of business on Tuesday. I ask Mr. Clerk to do his best to arrange our first witness testimony on this matter the Tuesday of the following week. That will give roughly a week for the witness lists to be sorted through, for the witnesses to be contacted and for the necessary technical matters to be undertaken.

Thank you, all.

On Tuesday, I propose that we finish up the Russia study. That leaves Thursday of next week in the air somewhat. If there are any suggestions for what we should do at that meeting, I would appreciate them.

I see Ms. Damoff has her hand up. Please, go ahead.

[Pam Damoff, Liberal, Oakville North—Burlington, ON]

Thank you.

It's Friday, actually, not Thursday.

We talked about having the correctional investigator come to talk about his report. If we have an extra meeting.... If we get the Russia study out—which is obviously our priority—and finish it on Tuesday, that might be an option.

I would have to go back through my notes to see what we were thinking of doing prior to getting into Bill C-21, but I know that was one of the things we talked about doing.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Thank you. That's a helpful intervention.

Is the committee in favour of doing so?

I think it's going to depend. If we get back to the Russia study on Tuesday, we should carry on until we finish it, even if that is on Friday. For the meeting on Friday, if available, I suggest that we follow Ms. Damoff's advice and carry on with that other matter.

Is the committee in agreement with this process? I see a lot of thumbs up.

That being the case, I thank you all for your patience and steadfastness in carrying us all through this. I know we all have some passionate viewpoints on these matters, and I appreciate you all sharing them with us with some vigour and enthusiasm.

Thank you, all. We are adjourned.