House of Commons Hansard #274 of the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was agreed.

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Concurrence in Vote 5—Department of the EnvironmentGovernment Orders

March 23rd, 1:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Assistant Deputy Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

The question is on Motion No. 92. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?

Concurrence in Vote 5—Department of the EnvironmentGovernment Orders

March 23rd, 1:30 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

No.

Concurrence in Vote 5—Department of the EnvironmentGovernment Orders

March 23rd, 1:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Assistant Deputy Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

All those in favour of the motion will please say yea.

Concurrence in Vote 5—Department of the EnvironmentGovernment Orders

March 23rd, 1:30 p.m.

Some hon. members

Yea.

Concurrence in Vote 5—Department of the EnvironmentGovernment Orders

March 23rd, 1:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Assistant Deputy Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

All those opposed will please say nay.

Concurrence in Vote 5—Department of the EnvironmentGovernment Orders

March 23rd, 1:30 p.m.

Some hon. members

Nay.

Concurrence in Vote 5—Department of the EnvironmentGovernment Orders

March 23rd, 1:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Assistant Deputy Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

In my opinion the yeas have it.

And five or more members having risen:

(The House divided on Motion No. 92 , which was agreed to on the following division:)

Vote #630

March 23rd, 1:35 p.m.

Liberal

The Assistant Deputy Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

I declare Motion No. 92 carried.

March 23rd, 1:35 p.m.

Conservative

John Brassard Conservative Barrie—Innisfil, ON

Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, and I look to the Chair for a ruling, the seconder of the motion was in fact not in the chamber. He started off in the chamber and had actually gone through the lobby door before you finished reading the motion. I look to you, Mr. Speaker, to determine whether the motion is valid after the vote.

March 23rd, 1:35 p.m.

Liberal

Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB

Mr. Speaker, I am sure what happened would have been a very innocent mistake. Generally speaking, the Speaker will look up and recognize the member who is going to be moving the motion. I would suggest that maybe there could be unanimous consent to allow the Speaker to do what the Speaker has been doing for the last 12 hours and recognize it. I think there might be some merit in that.

March 23rd, 1:40 p.m.

Liberal

The Assistant Deputy Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

I checked with the table.

The Minister of Finance was here when it started. He did, in fact, leave just about halfway through the motion. By rights he should have stayed through the whole thing. If it is okay with everyone, since the Minister of Canadian Heritage was in the room, we could put her name on there and just proceed.

However, the Chair is going to take it under advisement, and we are going to proceed with the vote.

March 23rd, 1:40 p.m.

Conservative

John Brassard Conservative Barrie—Innisfil, ON

Mr. Speaker, clearly there was a violation of the rules here, so I ask again for a reconsideration of your ruling on this issue. I would like some validation as to why we are in fact moving forward, based on the fact that the rules were violated.

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

Liberal

Wayne Easter Liberal Malpeque, PE

Mr. Speaker, on this point of order, the member was here when the motion was moved, but the member left before the vote, so the motion should stand.

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Assistant Deputy Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

If I may, this is a unique situation. We will check the precedence and come back to the House with an answer.

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Mr. Speaker, on the same point of order, I think rather than proceed and continue with votes, we should pause and you can get advice from the clerks and find out exactly what we should be doing. We cannot proceed. We are not going to continue with more votes.

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

Some hon. members

Oh, oh!

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Assistant Deputy Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

Order. I realize that everyone is tired. It has been a long stretch, and these little glitches do happen. I have consulted the table officers, and they have advised me that they are looking into the matter, and they will come back to the House with an answer.

Right now we are going to proceed with Motion No. 93.

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

NDP

Guy Caron NDP Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC

Mr. Speaker, on the same point of order, I would like to quickly remind you that I was here during the previous Parliament when a similar marathon of votes took place. There was some doubt at one point when the minister of finance at the time, Mr. Flaherty, was absent. However, the votes continued, because the government was allowed to designate another cabinet minister to move the motion.

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

Conservative

Peter Van Loan Conservative York—Simcoe, ON

Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. In fact, you referenced, during this marathon voting, an earlier review of the big green book. The difference is that this point of order was raised at the first possible instance, immediately in response to the motion, when the vote was concluded, and as a result, I think you have to hear all submissions on it, because it is properly before you at this time.

However, it also has a significant distinction from the earlier precedent spoken to, where the issue was not raised until a much later sitting. It was not raised at the time the incident occurred, so it did not satisfy that part of the test of being raised at the first possible instance. It was a very different situation from what we face here.

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Assistant Deputy Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

I have heard what everyone has to say. We will stick with what we said earlier. We will proceed with the votes.

Concurrence in Vote 10—Department of the EnvironmentGovernment Orders

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

Liberal

Mélanie Joly Liberal Ahuntsic-Cartierville, QC

moved:

That Vote 10, in the amount of $150,160,323, under Department of the Environment—Grants and contributions, in the Interim Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019, be concurred in.

Concurrence in Vote 10—Department of the EnvironmentGovernment Orders

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

Nipissing—Timiskaming Ontario

Liberal

Anthony Rota LiberalThe Assistant Deputy Speaker

The question is on Motion No. 93. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?

Concurrence in Vote 10—Department of the EnvironmentGovernment Orders

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

No.

Concurrence in Vote 10—Department of the EnvironmentGovernment Orders

March 23rd, 1:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Assistant Deputy Speaker Liberal Anthony Rota

All those in favour of the motion will please say yea.