Evidence of meeting #49 for Status of Women in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was hoeppner.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Angela Crandall  Committee Clerk, House of Commons

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Ms. Hoeppner.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Yes.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

I think you are asking members to speak to their caucus. That's not particularly appropriate. Let's stick to the message.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Madam Chair, can I--

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Members will speak--

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

I have--

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Excuse me. Members will speak to the issue.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

I have the right to ask that. They don't have to.

Okay, call the question. Just call the question.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

You're telling members that they are coming and voting and speaking to an issue without any prior decision-making. I think it really speaks to the fact that you are suggesting that the members here did not think about how they're going to vote. I think that's not something you should presume, that people are not thinking how they vote. I would not presume to think that you don't think how you vote.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Madam Chair, you cut me off. I had my time and you cut me off.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

I am speaking.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Well, I was speaking before you were.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Do not yell, Ms. Hoeppner. Please keep your cool.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

My cool is kept, thank you very much. Don't tell me.... I am not yelling.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Yes, you are.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

I'm being very emphatic and I'm being very passionate. I have a right to speak. You cut me off, and I would like to finish what I was saying.

You might not like what I say, Madam Chair, but I do have a right to say it. I'm an elected member of Parliament, I'm on this committee, and I have a right to encourage the opposition members to look at their colleagues, because we're discussing the long gun registry now, apparently. Now we're on the long gun registry, so I have a right to say that even members of their own party have supported the vote and have said the long gun registry is nothing to end violence against women.

December 10th, 2009 / 4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Except you have a tendency, when the chair is speaking, not to listen. I am the chair of this committee.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Yes, you are.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Excuse me, Ms. Hoeppner.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

You have a tendency to stop other people from speaking.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

There is decorum within a committee.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

You have a tendency to stop other people from speaking.

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Ms. Hoeppner, please be careful.

4:25 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Or?

4:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Because I'm the chair.