Foreign Affairs committee  Welcome, members. Honourable members of the committee, I see a quorum. I must inform members that the clerk of the committee may only receive motions for the election of chair. The clerk cannot receive other types of motions and cannot entertain points of order or participate i

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Sarai. It has been moved by MP Sarai that MP Spengemann be elected chair of the committee. Are there any further motions? (Motion agreed to) I invite you to take the chair, Mr. Spengemann.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Erica Pereira. I'm the clerk of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. I believe I have worked with each of you in some capacity before, so it is my great pleasure to be here once again. Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  It means two members of any opposition party.

Foreign Affairs committee  Members can always propose amendments during the discussions at a meeting of the committee.

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, one of the things that I could do is also check on the kind of equipment they are using. My understanding is that the lack of interpretation had to do more with older equipment that was not able to properly run the Zoom interpretation. Specifically, older iPads had tha

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly. Thank you, Mr. Chair. One of the issues is that the last line of this motion states “that any motion to sit in camera is debatable and amendable”. Specifically, you'll note that Standing Order 67(2) states that these are dilatory motions. They're not debatable motions

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It would really be up to the committee to decide what its timeline would be. Looking at the House of Commons sitting calendar, having new motions in for consideration this week seems unlikely, which means our first meeting when the House comes back would b

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Right now the rubric for the committee is committee business, which means that anything that the committee decides to consider at this time is admissible. If you were considering vaccine equity, a motion not related to vaccine equity would not be in order a

Foreign Affairs committee  The motion adopted on November 25 in the House specifies that any votes in committee must be by recorded division, unless they're unanimous or on division. May I proceed, Mr. Chair?

Foreign Affairs committee  The motion is that the debate be now adjourned. (Motion negatived: nays 6; yeas 5 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. As it was presented to the committee, then it would be properly before the committee.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's correct, Mr. Chair.

Foreign Affairs committee  According to my understanding, Ms. Bendayan has moved an amendment to the subcommittee report. That amendment would replace what is currently there with the motion that she just read into the record.

Foreign Affairs committee  Correct. The next course of action would be to debate and vote on this amendment. If people vote in favour, then yes, it would have the action of replacing that one item. If people vote against, then that one item would be restored.