Canadian Heritage Committee on May 29th, 2013

[Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet, NDP, Hochelaga, QC]

Yes. Okay.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Moore]

She would remain on the pending list, Madame Boutin-Sweet.

I guess there is not consensus, then, on 110, 111, 112, or 113 at this time.

Mr. Dubé.

[Matthew Dubé, NDP, Chambly—Borduas, QC]

So 113 would be placed on the pending list, pending further discussion.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Moore]

Yes.

A few others are proposed. Those would be the Liberal ones. Mind you, we can always add witnesses to this study. I suspect we will be adding witnesses.

Mr. Calandra.

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

Is it safe to say, Mr. Chair, that we have enough from all three parties at this particular point that we could have a number of meetings scheduled? Unless there's somebody that the Liberals really want to add to the list right now, perhaps we could just keep it as is.

[Ted Hsu, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

There is one individual that we particularly wish to have appear. That is Mr. John FitzGerald, who can tell us about the history of Newfoundland before Confederation. We think that would be very important to—

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Moore]

That's number 65.

[Ted Hsu, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

Number 65, I'm sorry. Yes. I realize I had that same problem.

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

Okay. That's fine.

[Ted Hsu, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

He's on the pending decision list.

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

Okay. Sorry, I thought we did, but that's fine.

[Ted Hsu, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

He would be very qualified to talk about the history of Newfoundland before Confederation. That's important.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Moore]

Mr. Hsu is suggesting that we add John FitzGerald. That's number 65.

Is it the will of the committee to invite John FitzGerald?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Moore]

He will be invited.

Recognizing that Mr. Simms isn't here to speak to all of these, are there any others that you want to speak to, Mr. Hsu?

[Ted Hsu, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

I would like to try to see if the committee would agree to add all these other names to the list as well.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Moore]

Mr. Calandra.

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

We can do this one at a time for a long time, but if we have enough people to start.... Do we have enough people from all parties right now?

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Moore]

Right now, we have 65 potential who are approved, plus the ones we've done. There are invitees from all the parties represented here: NDP, Liberal, and Conservative. We do have enough to start.

Madame Boutin-Sweet.

[Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet, NDP, Hochelaga, QC]

Yes, we have archeologists, but I don't think we have a lot of anthropologists.

Number 67 on the list of witnesses is Hugh Brody, who brings a different perspective on the Dene people and Inuit. He studied in the north, so it might be interesting to hear his perspective on the north.

It could also be interesting to hear from Georges Sioui.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Moore]

Madame Boutin-Sweet is suggesting that we invite Hugh Brody, anthropologist, from the Liberal list, number 67.

Is it the will of the committee that...?

Mr. Boughen.

[Ray Boughen, Conservative, Palliser, SK]

Chair, not a big thing, but Don Morgan, number 30 and Minister of Advanced Education, is a member of the Saskatchewan Party. He's not a Liberal.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Moore]

He's invited by the Liberals.

Madame Boutin-Sweet is asking that we invite numbers 67 and 68. Is there any discussion?

Is it the will of the committee to invite numbers 67 and 68?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Moore]

Okay, and sorry to refer to these people by number, but there are so many of them. We're going to invite witness numbers 67 and 68.

Mr. Hsu.