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Standing Committee on Official Languages

NUMÉRO 006

1^re SESSION

41^e LÉGISLATURE

EVIDENCE

Le mardi 4 octobre 2011

[Enregistrement électronique]

(0845)

[Translation]

The Chair (Hon. Michael Chong):

Welcome to the sixth meeting of the Standing Committee on Official Languages. Today is October 4, 2011. We are here to deal with committee business. We have received motions from Mr. Bélanger and Mr. Godin.

Mr. Gourde?

Mr. Jacques Gourde (Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, CPC):

Mr. Chair, I would like to request that the meeting be held in camera.

The Chair:

Mr. Gourde is presenting a motion that the meeting be held in camera. There is no debate.

Hon. Mauril Bélanger (Ottawa—Vanier, Lib.):

I would like a recorded vote on this.

The Chair:

There is no debate on this motion. So…

Hon. Mauril Bélanger:

If you want to kill democracy, you will take the blame for it.

The Chair:

… I am going to call the vote.

All those in favour of this motion…

Hon. Mauril Bélanger:

Mr. Chair, this needs to be a recorded vote. Because if we want to kill democracy, we will take the blame for it.

The Chair:

All right.

Mr. Yvon Godin (Acadie—Bathurst, NDP):

I would like to say something. Mr. Chair, you shouldn't use in camera to kill democracy in our country.

The Chair:

The chair has the floor. I am giving the floor to the clerk so that he can proceed with the recorded division.

(The motion is carried 6 to 4.)

[The meeting continued in camera.]