Evidence of meeting #1 for Finance in the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
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Liberal
Ryan Turnbull Liberal Whitby, ON
On a point of order, that's not true. I've been a part of seven standing committees, and there have been many cases when the chair gavelled us out on time at the end of a meeting. That's been the standard practice in almost every committee I've been on. There's been a very rare occasion....
The meeting notice says 11 until one. The meeting ends at one unless there's unanimous consent to continue.
Conservative
Pat Kelly Conservative Calgary Crowfoot, AB
Consent is implied when we're on our normal timed rounds of speaking and you get to the appointed hour. Consent to adjourn is implied and chairs will adjourn, but when there is an active motion being debated, you cannot just gavel the meeting out.
Bloc
Jean-Denis Garon Bloc Mirabel, QC
If my colleague is right and that is what the Standing Orders say, we could stay here until September 1 as long as there is someone on the speakers' list.
The clerks can check whether the Standing Orders say that, as long as there is someone on the speakers' list, we can stay here until 2029?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Karina Gould
We will check that.
I'm going to suspend the meeting for a couple of minutes while we sort this out.
Thank you.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Karina Gould
I call the meeting back to order.
Thank you very much for raising that issue, Mr. Kelly.
I want to inform committee members that there are resources available only until 1:30.
Mr. Leitão still has the floor. Of course, any member could move to adjourn the meeting while they have the floor. However, you can't do that during a point of order.
I will return the floor back to Mr. Leitão.
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Karina Gould
Given this, I will move to a vote on the motion to adjourn.
(Motion agreed to: yeas 9; nays 0)
After that vigorous debate and points of order, we are adjourning this meeting. Thank you.
