Business of the Senate
November 9, 2023
The standing vote is deferred to 5:30. Senator McCallum?
We will keep the vote to 5:30.
Senator McCallum, can you please repeat your comment?
Honourable senators, with your leave, I would like to withdraw the motion and have the vote at 5:30.
It is not clear what you are asking. Could you please repeat that?
I was supposed to ask for leave, and Senator Klyne has withdrawn his motion. So I am maintaining the vote should go ahead at 5:30. It is done.
So you are not asking for leave?
No, I’m not.
That’s fine. Thank you.
Your Honour, now I would like to have a clarification. We were of the impression, Your Honour, that Senator McCallum was going to ask leave for her to withdraw her amendment because Senator Klyne had a different amendment. If that is the case, there would not be a vote at 5:30. Now I am hearing that she is asking leave for a vote at 5:30. We already have that. If she is asking leave to withdraw her amendment so that Senator Klyne — apparently, they have an agreement, which we are certainly not objecting to — we would not object to leave for her to withdraw, but I think we need to be clear what she is trying — because I am not clear right now.
I asked if she was asking leave, and she confirmed that she was not asking leave to withdraw the amendment. The standing vote has been deferred to 5:30. So we will have the vote at 5:30.
