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.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Procedural Clerk
Okay. It would read, “The government shall review the definition of library materials in proposed subparagraph 19(1)(g.1) every 10 years.”
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
Instead of the government reviewing it, I'm just wondering if it might be advantageous for the committee that's responsible for crown corporations to review it. In this case, Canada Post is the appropriate committee. I'm wondering if that's Ms. Crombie's intention. The government can review things pretty quickly without anybody knowing about it. We might have an NDP government for that matter at that stage.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
Would it be better to have the appropriate committee have it so that we would receive notice here, and if the committee wanted to study it, the committee could and then make a recommendation to the House or the government?
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Bloc
Michel Guimond Bloc Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC
The problem can be easily solved. Instead of talking about the government, just change it to “Parliament”. When you talk about “Parliament”, it refers to a committee reporting to the House and the House, which meets in Parliament, adopting that report.
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Procedural Clerk
The difficulty with saying “Parliament” is it's not clear whether it's the House and the Senate or the House or the Senate.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
They can recommend to do nothing further and not to report it to the Senate, or to change the legislation and then it would go to the Senate in due course. We don't need both places to--
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Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal John McCallum
So you accept that, “Parliament”?
I think we may have arrived at a consensus: “Parliament shall review”.... You go ahead.
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Procedural Clerk
It would be “Parliament shall review the definition of library materials in proposed paragraph 19(1)(g.1) every 10 years.”
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Liberal
The Vice-Chair Liberal John McCallum
All right. Is there agreement? I can now ask for a vote on this?
Shall new clause 4--
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Liberal
Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC
On a point of clarification, wouldn't this mean that it couldn't be done before the 10-year period or before it has been 10 years? Let's say that at the end of five years--
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Liberal
Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC
--things have changed. Could they still do it after five years, or would they have to wait until the 10th year?
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Bloc
Michel Guimond Bloc Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC
Your amendment, Mr. Proulx, referred to at least ten years.
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Liberal
