Mr. Speaker, I move:
That, notwithstanding any Standing Order, special order or usual practice of the House:
(a) following Oral Questions later this day, the House shall proceed to a recorded division on the motion for second reading of Bill C-2, An Act to provide further support in response to COVID-19;
(b) that the members to serve on the Standing Committee on Finance be appointed by the whip of each recognized party depositing with the Clerk of the House a list of his or her party's members no later than 24 hours after the adoption of this order, and that the Clerk of the House shall convene a meeting of the committee no later than Monday, December 6, 2021;
(c) the Standing Committee on Finance shall be composed of six members of the Liberal Party, four members of the Conservative Party, one member of the Bloc Québécois and one member of the New Democratic Party;
(d) if Bill C-2 is read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance be invited to appear as a witness for the committee during the consideration of the bill, and that she answer questions for not less than two hours after her opening statement;
(e) the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs be appointed to prepare and report lists of members to compose the standing and standing joint committees of this House, and that the committee be composed of Bardish Chagger, Ryan Turnbull, Mark Gerretsen, Sherry Romanado, Ruby Sahota, Greg Fergus, Michael Barrett, Blain Calkins, Eric Duncan, Brad Vis, Alain Therrien and Rachel Blaney;
(f) the Clerk of the House shall convene a meeting of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs tomorrow at 12:30 p.m.;
(g) immediately upon the tabling of the report referred to in paragraph (e), it shall be concurred in;
(h) the Clerk of the House shall convene organizational meetings of all the Standing Committees no later than Friday, December 17, 2021;
(i) for the duration of the 44th Parliament:
(i) Standing Order 104(1) be amended by replacing the words “10 members”, with the words “12 members”,
(ii) Standing Order 104(2) be amended by replacing the words “10 members” with the following: “12 members, except for the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, which shall consist of 11 members”,
(iii) Standing Order 106(4) be amended by adding, after the words “any four members of the said committee”, the words “representing at least two different political parties”,
(iv) Standing Orders 104(5), 104(6)(b), 114(2)(e) and 114(2)(f) be suspended,
(v) Standing Order 108(1)(c) be amended by adding, after the word “subcommittees”, the words “, composed of members from all recognized parties,”; and
(j) the Clerk of the House be authorized to make any required editorial and consequential alterations to the Standing Orders, including to the marginal notes.