Transport Committee on Dec. 7th, 2010

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

I think you should read it out.

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

Thanks, Mr. Chair.

It reads that Bill C-42 be amended in clause 2 by replacing lines 15 and 16 on page 1 with the following.... So it's lines 15 and 16, if everybody can direct their attention there.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

Does everybody have a copy of the bill?

Okay, Mr. Jean.

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

The motion is to replace lines 15 and 16 on page 1 with the following:

to land in a foreign state or fly over the United States and land outside Canada or of a Canadian

And then carry on.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

So you're substituting “due to land in the United States”.... Is that what you're saying?

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

Yes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

And/or fly over? Is that what you're saying?

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

...“to land in a foreign state or fly over the United States”. It's to include the fly-over, which was one of the NDP issues.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

Mr. McCallum.

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

Sorry. And to continue on, my second amendment would be replacing lines 18 and 19, so leaving line 17 there, and substituting instead:

Canada that is due to land in a foreign state or fly over the United States may, in accordance with the

And then carry on with the subsection. So it would be to reflect the United States and the fly-over provisions.

Are you happy, Mr. Bevington?

[Dennis Bevington, NDP, Western Arctic, NT]

On that particular aspect, yes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

Those subamendments would be inadmissible. We would need the agreement of the entire committee to—

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

Or just to challenge....

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

Or challenge it, yes.

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

I would so challenge, Mr. Chair, unfortunately.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

The challenge that we have here is that in the LIB-3 amendment, they are actually adding lines, and therefore your subamendment is correcting lines within the bill itself.

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

Absolutely.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

But that's what makes it inadmissible, and we would have to deal with the LIB-3 amendment first and then go back to the subamendment. It would be a new amendment at that point.

Mr. McCallum.

[John McCallum, Liberal, Markham—Unionville, ON]

I think the amendment proposed by the government achieves directly what we were seeking to achieve indirectly. If the legislation is limited to the United States, we do not need our own amendment, because that means that no other country could be included without amendment to the legislation. So that would mean that we would withdraw our amendment and go instead with Mr. Jean's amendment.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

I need to make sure everybody is in agreement with that.

Monsieur Guimond.

[Michel Guimond, Bloc, Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC]

Yes, okay.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

So what we would have to do is have the LIB-3 amendment withdrawn, which Mr. McCallum has agreed to, but we still need someone to move the amendments that Mr. Jean has proposed.

[Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Newton—North Delta, BC]

I will move the amendment.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

Mr. Dhaliwal will move the amendment, as read by Mr. Jean. It still makes it inadmissible.

[Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Newton—North Delta, BC]

I'll blame you now.