Evidence of meeting #29 for Transport, Infrastructure and Communities in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.
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Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal John McCallum
Can we pass it, and someone can work on the French translation? Can we do that?
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An hon. member
Agreed.
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Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal John McCallum
Okay.
The amendment is the following:
“library materials” are defined as books, magazines, records, CDs, CD-ROMs, audiocassettes and videocassettes, DVDs, and other similar library materials;
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Liberal
Bonnie Crombie Liberal Mississauga—Streetsville, ON
You missed the audio-visual again; “DVDs, audio-visual materials, and other similar materials”.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
Actually, if I may, the government amendment 1, with the other addition that was suggested, lists all of them, I think, because we think we missed audiocassettes as well.
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Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal John McCallum
I said “audiocassettes and videocassettes”, but do you also want to have--
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Liberal
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
So it's “videocassettes, DVDs, and other audio-visual materials”.
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Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal John McCallum
So “DVDs, audio-visual materials and other similar library materials”. Is that what you want?
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Liberal
Bonnie Crombie Liberal Mississauga—Streetsville, ON
Do you want me to read it? Okay.
It reads:
“library materials” are defined as books, magazines, records, CDs, CD-ROMs, audiocassettes, videocassettes, DVDs, audio-visual materials, and other similar library materials;
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Liberal
Bonnie Crombie Liberal Mississauga—Streetsville, ON
It's “audio-visual materials, and other similar materials”.
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Liberal
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
That's perfect.
It's going to be a good day, I can tell already.
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Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal John McCallum
Okay.
Is everyone in agreement with the amendment?
(Amendment agreed to)
(Clause 1 as amended agreed to)
(On clause 2)
I think there's both a government amendment and a Liberal amendment. So we'll start with the government amendment.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My understanding, from what I've read, is that this is to actually align the English and the French text. I understand that the English regulatory power of prescribing is narrower than the French and would not allow setting the rate, which uses a formula with extended variables, which is required pursuant to the regulations.
Possibly Monsieur Guimond could comment on whether or not the French is indeed broader than the English. “Prescribing”, I understand, is the key word, so the only amendment from the government's perspective is to change “prescribing” to “providing”.
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Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal John McCallum
Is there any discussion on the government amendment?
Bonnie, if you want to do your amendment, you have to present it now as a subamendment.
11:30 a.m.
Liberal
