Foreign Affairs Committee on April 29th, 2009

Evidence of meeting #15 for Foreign Affairs and International Development in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was lanka.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Review of Key Elements of Canadian Foreign Policy

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Ken Sunquist Assistant Deputy Minister (Asia and Africa) and Chief Trade Commissioner, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Syed Rahman Director General, Asia, Canadian International Development Agency

Stephen Salewicz Acting Director, International Humanitarian Assistance Directorate, Canadian International Development Agency

Greg Giokas Acting Director General, South, Southeast Asia and Oceania Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Leslie E. Norton Director, Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Response Group (IRH-GHA), Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Angela Crandall Procedural Clerk, Committees Directorate, House of Commons

5:35 p.m.

NDP

Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON

I'm not going to be here tomorrow.

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Conservative

Deepak Obhrai Conservative Calgary East, AB

That's your problem, not mine.

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NDP

Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON

Are you going to be here tomorrow?

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Conservative

Deepak Obhrai Conservative Calgary East, AB

Oh, damn right I'll be here.

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NDP

Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON

Well, the committee is not meeting tomorrow, but that's another question, I guess. You can show up.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

We've already gone five minutes over time.

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NDP

Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON

What I wanted to know from you is if, according to this motion, it will be moved to the top of the agenda and be dealt with on Wednesday, April 29.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

No. My assumption now is that it is at the top of the agenda and will be moved as soon as you ask it to be. Not now, though, because--

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Some hon. members

Oh, oh!

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

--we've gone past the hour.

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An hon. member

I have an objection to that.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

No, because we've now passed the--

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Conservative

Deepak Obhrai Conservative Calgary East, AB

What did you pass?

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

We passed the steering committee report.

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Conservative

Deepak Obhrai Conservative Calgary East, AB

What did the motion say?

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

That Mr. Dewar's motion--

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NDP

Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON

--be dealt with on Wednesday, April 29.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

No, no.

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Conservative

Deepak Obhrai Conservative Calgary East, AB

Yes, that's what we said.

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NDP

Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON

That's what it says.

He agrees with me!

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Some hon. members

Oh, oh!

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

That may be fine, but--

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Conservative

Deepak Obhrai Conservative Calgary East, AB

So what are you trying to change it to?

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Conservative

Lois Brown Conservative Newmarket—Aurora, ON

Let's have a motion to adjourn.

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NDP

Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON

No, I have the floor right now.

I'm saying to you that we have this motion in front of us. We haven't had a motion to adjourn, so right now, according to this agenda, we have the motion that I've put forward in front of us. Now, I'm not sure if we can just put it forward and debate it and pass it. I think we've debated it. The question is whether the other side wants to have a vote on this.

I'm going to do the following, Chair. According to this report we've just adopted, this motion is now in front of us. So I'd like to call the question on that motion.