The question is on Motion No. 99. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
House of Commons Hansard #393 of the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was justice.
House of Commons Hansard #393 of the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was justice.
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The Deputy Speaker Bruce Stanton
The question is on Motion No. 99. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
No.
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Some hon. members
Yea.
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Some hon. members
Nay.
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The Deputy Speaker Bruce Stanton
In my opinion the yeas have it.
And five or more members having risen:
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Vancouver Quadra B.C.
Liberal
Joyce Murray LiberalPresident of the Treasury Board
moved:
That Vote 15, in the amount of $16,256,731, under Department of Transport — Grants and contributions, in the Interim Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2020, be concurred in.
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The Deputy Speaker Bruce Stanton
The next question is on Motion No. 100. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
No.
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Some hon. members
Yea.
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Some hon. members
Nay.
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The Deputy Speaker Bruce Stanton
In my opinion the yeas have it.
And five or more members having risen:
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The Deputy Speaker Bruce Stanton
I declare Motion No. 100 carried.
The hon. member for Carleton on a point of order.
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
Mr. Speaker, on a point of order, there has been some discussion, and Conservative members have come together and agreed that we can bundle up the remaining votes, pass them, put all of the votes before Parliament and have it all completed by 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the simple condition that the government agree in writing that at least six witnesses connected to the SNC-Lavalin scandal will be present to testify in the ethics committee investigation, that both the former Treasury Board president and the former attorney general to be allowed to appear and that all encumbrances on what they can say will be removed. Then I think we can be out of here in 15 minutes.
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The Deputy Speaker Bruce Stanton
Order, please. I am assuming the hon. member for Carleton wishes to put that in a form of a proposal for a unanimous consent motion. Does the hon. member have unanimous consent of the House to propose the motion?
Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON
Mr. Speaker, I would like to speak to that point of order as a member of the ethics committee. I am surprised that someone who is not on the ethics committee is speaking for the ethics committee.
However, we will be inviting the former attorney general, as well as the member for Markham—Stouffville. We will be offering the full protection of our committee to present. The Prime Minister this morning stated on national television that he was interested in supporting the work.
However, I would just like to clarify for the record and for the hon. member for Carleton that if he has witnesses who he would want to bring, then the proper way to bring them is through his member on committee, so we respect the process here.
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The Deputy Speaker Bruce Stanton
The House appreciates this additional suggestion, but in fact it is not a point of order. Nonetheless, it is on the record.
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Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
Mr. Speaker, my point of order relates to a question of privilege raised by the hon. for Calgary Nose Hill. She highlighted the fact that at least two Liberal members of Parliament were purportedly told that they had better not participate in voting on billions and billions of dollars of expenditures before the House of Commons, because sleep deprived and angry colleagues might make the environment uncomfortable for them. The Speaker said originally that he found that to be hearsay.
I have before me an article that quotes the former president of the Treasury Board, which is published today with her name on it as the source. Therefore, it is not an unnamed source. The article attributes to her the words, “There's much more to the story that needs to be told”. In the same story, she refers to bullying and harassment by the Prime Minister and his team, which she said was directed at the former attorney general. That is found in today's article by Paul Wells, March 21. It is available for the House of Commons.
I do not know, Mr. Speaker, if you need me to table it in both official languages right now or if you can have it translated. However, we can now put to rest the suggestion by the Speaker that it was hearsay, because, of course, the person quoted is the person speaking, and that person is prepared to put her name to her words.