Evidence of meeting #74 for Transport, Infrastructure and Communities in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendments.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Olivier Champagne  Legislative Clerk, House of Commons
Helena Borges  Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Transport
Alain Langlois  General Counsel and Deputy Executive Director, Department of Transport
Marcia Jones  Director, Rail Policy Analysis and Legislative Initiatives, Department of Transport
Brigitte Diogo  Director General, Rail Safety, Department of Transport
Ian Disend  Senior Policy Analyst, Marketplace Framework Policy Branch, Department of Industry

7:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

All right, we have a subamendment to change 60 days to 180 days.

(Subamendment agreed to)

(Amendment as amended agreed to)

LIB-6 cannot be moved, so that's deleted.

(Clause 98 as amended agreed to)

(On clause 14)

We have to go back to a bit of work on clause 14.

Mr. Fraser.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

Sean Fraser Liberal Central Nova, NS

This was me. This was when I didn't have language on the spot. I do have proposed language for these. This was in response to Mr. Chong's motion that would essentially seek to adopt his proposed amendments that were named CPC-5-A, CPC-5-B, and CPC-6, I believe.

Do we have copies of these for folks?

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

I think we are doing clause 14 first.

7:25 p.m.

Conservative

Kelly Block Conservative Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek, SK

It's CPC-5, CPC-6, and CPC-7.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

I am going to Ms. Block for CPC-5.

7:25 p.m.

Conservative

Kelly Block Conservative Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek, SK

It's actually Mr. Chong.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

I'm sorry. Mr. Chong, go ahead.

7:25 p.m.

Conservative

Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON

Great. Do we have a subamendment?

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

Sean Fraser Liberal Central Nova, NS

Yes. That's what I was going to explain. The spirit of it was essentially to exclude any confidential information.

Do we have copies of this for people to actually see? Is it being handed out now? Okay.

7:25 p.m.

Conservative

Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON

Are we not moving them already?

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

The legislative clerk is suggesting that you withdraw CPC-5 in favour of....

7:25 p.m.

Legislative Clerk, House of Commons

Olivier Champagne

If the committee agrees.... We are on CPC-5 right now.

7:25 p.m.

Conservative

Kelly Block Conservative Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek, SK

I just need to understand. On what basis would we not just simply see a subamendment? Is the issue again that it is ruled out of order, or is there some procedural thing that I'm not understanding?

7:25 p.m.

Legislative Clerk, House of Commons

Olivier Champagne

I just want to make sure that.... Right now, it is too lengthy for me to be certain that it fits with CPC-5, so I think it's safer for the committee to unanimously decide to withdraw CPC-5 and just accept that this new amendment be moved.

7:25 p.m.

Conservative

Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON

I am in agreement.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

Do we have unanimous consent to withdraw CPC-5?

7:25 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

(Amendment withdrawn)

Sean needs to move his motion. What are we calling it?

7:25 p.m.

Legislative Clerk, House of Commons

Olivier Champagne

It doesn't matter.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

It does matter.

We have Mr. Fraser's motion.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

Sean Fraser Liberal Central Nova, NS

I might phrase it differently than I would have otherwise, because I was planning on doing this as a subamendment.

Perhaps we can do it as subamendments to clause 14 in proposed subsection 53.73(3).

You all have a copy in front of you. Do I need to read them out?

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

No, everybody has them.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

Sean Fraser Liberal Central Nova, NS

We adopt the language as proposed in the written document before you.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro

Is everybody okay with that? We are going to refer to it as 14A.

(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

We have CPC-6.

7:25 p.m.

Legislative Clerk, House of Commons

Olivier Champagne

My understanding is that CPC-6 and CPC-7 were not moved.