Hoist (motion)

A hoist motion is used in Canadian legislative bodies to cause a bill not to be read now, but six months hence, or any number of months hence.

Parliamentary procedure
Major concepts
  • Deliberative assembly
  • Motions
  • Main motion
  • Quorum
  • Session
  • Chair
  • Committee
  • Committee of the whole
  • Dilatory motions and tactics
  • Minutes
  • Second
  • History of parliamentary procedure
  • Principles of parliamentary procedure
  • Voting methods in deliberative assemblies
  • Floor
Subsidiary motions
  • Postpone indefinitely
  • Amend
  • Commit
  • Postpone to a certain time
  • Limit or extend limits of debate
  • Previous question
  • Lay upon the table
  • Place upon the table
Privileged motions
  • Call for the orders of the day
  • Raise a question of privilege
  • Recess
  • Adjourn
  • Fix the time to which to adjourn
Incidental motions
  • Point of order
  • Appeal
  • Suspend the rules
  • Objection to the consideration of a question
  • Division of a question
  • Consideration by paragraph or seriatim
  • Division of the assembly
  • Motions relating to methods of voting and the polls
  • Motions relating to nominations
Incidental motions
(Requests and inquiries)
  • Parliamentary inquiry
  • Point of information
  • Request for permission to withdraw or modify a motion
  • Request to read papers
  • Request to be excused from a duty
  • Request for any other privilege
Motions that bring a question
again before the assembly
  • Take from the table
  • Rescind, repeal, annul or amend something previously adopted
  • Discharge a committee
  • Reconsider
Legislative procedure
  • Call of the house
  • Hoist
  • Majority of the majority
  • Motion to pass on
Disciplinary procedures
  • Censure
  • Declare the chair vacant
  • Impeach
  • Naming
Parliamentary authorities
  • Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR)
  • The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (TSC or Sturgis)
  • Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure
  • Riddick's Rules of Procedure
  • Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure
  • Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice
  • Bourinot's Rules of Order
  • Beauchesne's Parliamentary Rules and Forms