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?
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;
Liberal
Bonnie Crombie Liberal Mississauga—Streetsville, ON
You missed the audio-visual again; “DVDs, audio-visual materials, and other similar materials”.
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.
Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal John McCallum
I said “audiocassettes and videocassettes”, but do you also want to have--
Liberal
Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
So it's “videocassettes, DVDs, and other audio-visual materials”.
Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal John McCallum
So “DVDs, audio-visual materials and other similar library materials”. Is that what you want?
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;
Liberal
Bonnie Crombie Liberal Mississauga—Streetsville, ON
It's “audio-visual materials, and other similar materials”.
Liberal
Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
That's perfect.
It's going to be a good day, I can tell already.
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.
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”.
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.
Liberal
