Public Accounts committee  The motion reads as follows. Whereas, the Alberta Energy Regulator failed to contain a tailing pond seepage while waiting 7 months for a geochemistry study to be completed, whereas, the Alberta Energy Regulator previously claimed that there was no contaminants found in the waterways when in fact Imperial staff told ACFN inspectors that dissolved iron was found in waterbody 3, and on April 3, 2023 that a test showed F2 hydrocarbons and naphthenic acids in waterbody.

Public Accounts committee  We have five yeas and five nays.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. It's the House of Commons Procedure and Practice, third edition, chapter 12, “The Process of Debate”, page 541. It states that: An amendment is out of order, procedurally, if: it is irrelevant to the main motion ([meaning] it deals with a matter foreign to the main motion, exceeds the scope, or introduces a new proposition which should properly be the subject of a separate substantive motion with notice); It raises a question substantially the same as one which the House [or the committee] has decided in the same session or conflicts with an amendment already agreed to; it is completely contrary to the main motion and would produce the same result as the defeat of the main motion;

Public Accounts committee  The motion would read: That, given recent reports that the National Capital Commission (NCC) paid over $8 million to replace a barn at Rideau Hall, the committee: (a) undertake a study of one meeting on this seemingly imprudent spending and especially considering the cost of living crisis Canadians are facing and invite the NCC, including CEO Tobi Nussbaum and Treasury Board and Public Services and Procurement Canada officials to testify on the matter; and (b) report to the House and that pursuant to Standing Order 109, the government table a comprehensive response.

Public Accounts committee  The motion would read: That the committee ask the Auditor General to investigate the funding agreement between the Government of Canada and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation for the Advanced Research in the Humanities and Human Sciences Fund, particularly as regards the Foundation’s compliance with its obligations under this agreement and per the relevant Canadian legislation.

Public Accounts committee  You'll have to give me a minute to prepare it.

Public Accounts committee  The motion would read as follows in French: Que le Comité demande à la vérificatrice générale de mener une enquête sur l'accord de financement concernant le fonds de recherche avancé en science humaine et sociale entre le gouvernement et la Fondation Pierre‑Elliott‑Trudeau, notamment en ce qui concerne le respect des obligations de la Fondation en vertu de cet accord et en vertu de la législation canadienne pertinente.

Public Accounts committee  Members can follow on our website the minutes of meeting number 64. You have the motion, and the amendment moved by Madame Marie-Hélène Gaudreau. I can read the motion, but the motion and the amendment are clearly worded in the minutes of that meeting. If the committee wants, I can read the amendment.

Public Accounts committee  Madame Marie-Hélène Gaudreau moved: That the motion be amended by adding before the words “All documents related to any audit” the following: “And, as requested by the committee in its Report No. 27 asking the Canada Revenue Agency to investigate the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation,”.

Public Accounts committee  Do you mean the entire motion?

Public Accounts committee  The amendment would be to add, at the beginning of the fourth paragraph before the words “All documents related to any audit”, the following: “And, as requested by the committee in its Report No. 27 asking the Canada Revenue Agency to investigate the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation”.

Public Accounts committee  I'm on it.

Public Accounts committee  Here is the motion: That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(g), the committee undertake a study of the contracts between Public Services and Procurement Canada with Moderna, Sanofi, Pfizer, Medicago, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson and Novavax for the supply of COVID‑19 vaccines (Auditor General's Report 9 and 10); That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(1), the committee order Public Services and Procurement Canada to produce a copy of each of the said contracts by forwarding them to the clerk of the committee within 15 days of the adoption of this motion, provided that they are free of any redactions; That, when these documents are received by the clerk: a.

Public Accounts committee  Within 15 days.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. Do you want me to read it as a whole or from the start, because the second two paragraphs—