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View James Maloney Profile
Lib. (ON)
Mr. Lloyd, thank you for that intervention. Had you gone on longer, I suspect you would have met the definition of a monologue, so I'm glad you stopped when you did.
If it makes you feel any better, if Mr. Weiler hadn't said it, I was about to. In the context of a meeting, relevance is always important, but when a witness is appearing before the committee, pursuant to the specific wording of a motion brought by one of your colleagues, I remind you that the context becomes even more important.
Thank you, and I will agree with you this much, in that I would hate to think anybody on this committee would try to usurp the functions of the chair. We all appreciate that reminder.
Mr. McLean, is this on the same issue?
View Greg McLean Profile
CPC (AB)
Yes, it is, Mr. Chair. As much as I appreciate your comments, I'd like to acknowledge that Mr. Lloyd's point is well taken, and you'll enforce that better next time, because the ability of other members to step in and usurp your role needs to be clearly defined as a non-starter.
Also, I noticed that if you're going to cut off members when they're asking questions off topic, I'd like you to also cut off witnesses when they're equally off topic.
View James Maloney Profile
Lib. (ON)
We're on the record and I'll say this. My practice, if we hit the time on the button, is to not interrupt witnesses if they appear to be close to finishing an answer. I did it when you asked your last question. I try to do that with everybody regardless of who's asking the questions. Sometimes it doesn't work out as precisely as I would like. I plan to continue that practice unless the will of the committee is that I stop people no matter what, right on the button. If you were to check the blues for this meeting and other meetings, they would reflect that I'm pretty fair with everybody's time regardless of which party they are with.
But again, I thank you. I will admit that sometimes it blows up in my face when I let them go on, and I regret it, but that's my burden to bear.
Mr. May, go ahead.
View Bryan May Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Bryan May Profile
2021-02-26 14:18
Mr. Chair, I would seek some guidance, maybe from the clerk, if we're suggesting that members of Parliament do not have the right to call a point of order on relevance. First of all, that's a misinterpretation of the rules, and for the future, yes, the chair should be jumping in, but if the chair isn't jumping in, members should have the right to call relevance on an issue.
View James Maloney Profile
Lib. (ON)
Mr. May, I thank you again for the comments.
I'm not a fan of frequent and repetitive points of order. Relevance is always a guiding principle at this committee and everywhere that we are carrying on our business. I don't intend to let anybody on this committee usurp my decision-making, but if people want to raise a point of order, they are within their rights to do so. It's then up to me to rule on whether it's appropriate or not.
I don't know that we need a ruling.
I see Mr. Cannings' hand is up. I'm going to let him speak, of course, but I would like to move on to questions because we do have witnesses who are sitting here patiently watching this. As much as they may be enjoying it, I'm sure they would rather have questions from us.
Mr. Cannings.
View Richard Cannings Profile
NDP (BC)
Mr. Chair, when we have the minister before us to question about the estimates, most of the questions that are put to the minister at that time have very little to do with the estimates. Basically we can ask the minister anything and that's what we do.
I'm siding with Mr. Patzer. I think it was fair game, as much as I thought the minister did face a lot of questions about forestry. I wanted to point that practice out. It's probably not in Bosc, but I think it should be considered.
View Heather McPherson Profile
NDP (AB)
I'm sorry to interrupt the member, but we have very limited time, and I don't know that listing all of the bills that have to come forward to the House is actually how we want to move forward on this. We have not had sufficient time to talk about the actual meat of this motion yet, despite the fact that I tabled it some time ago, so unless the member is going to actually talk about this motion, not, in fact, all of the bills coming forward in the House.... I would prefer that we stick to this motion.
View Sven Spengemann Profile
Lib. (ON)
Ms. McPherson, I believe she was addressing consequences of the motion, so I will allow this thought to be expressed. I think it is part of the consequences of what would happen if we go down this path.
View Lloyd Longfield Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Lloyd Longfield Profile
2021-02-22 17:52
We don't have the witnesses on trial, especially when we're asking questions about another department. I don't think it's fair to the witnesses.
View Dan Albas Profile
CPC (BC)
Mr. Chair, I have to just again raise my concerns here that we cannot do our job as parliamentarians. I've seen this happen on this committee a number of times. This is not reflective on our committee witnesses here today or yourself in your chair, Mr. Chair. We've seen where we wanted to have the deputy minister come in, and I've said specifically that I wanted to ask questions in regard to her role as an accounting officer. MP Collins has put forward a motion endorsed by this committee so that we could get a full spectrum of questions on the efficacy of the CEPA regime starting from detection all the way through to successful prosecution or not, and unfortunately, that is not happening today.
I just want to register that, Mr. Chair, in the strongest of terms, and I am not a member of Parliament to throw these terms around lightly. I am deeply disappointed by the government's regard for our committee. I do hope that the other vice-chairs are listening, and I do hope ultimately the minister and his staff are listening. To be treating members of Parliament, specifically the committee that is charged legislatively, statutorily, with the scrutinizing of his department and the government's general approach.... I just want to register my frustration and my disappointment, and quite frankly, I'm getting to the point of anger, because this committee is being shown time and time again a lack of regard.
Thank you.
View Ya'ara Saks Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Ya'ara Saks Profile
2021-02-22 17:54
As the newest member of the committee and having stepped into this study, it was my understanding that this study was really about CEPA enforcement, not relitigation of the Volkswagen case per se, but to see how we can improve the CEPA commitments that were made at the throne speech even in 2020 of last year.
That being said, can you clarify for me: Did my colleague Mr. Albas at any time ask for a member of the public prosecution to be a witness just so we can clarify between enforcement, which is what we're focused on here, versus their procedural process in a court case that has already been decided upon?
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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