Evidence of meeting #4 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was meeting.
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Liberal
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Derek Lee
We hadn't locked in, to my recollection; at least, your chair hadn't written it down that way. But if you want to have the real estate that day, that's fine. This is the issue of sale of assets, with a brief look at expenditure review. Actually, maybe that's all there is to do with expenditure review: to simply look at it quickly. Yes, so it's asset sales and expenditure review. Is that--
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Liberal
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Liberal
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Bloc
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Derek Lee
That is now March 10.
If the chair doesn't know, the chair doesn't mark it down.
Is there anything you wanted to say?
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Bloc
Diane Bourgeois Bloc Terrebonne—Blainville, QC
The House is not sitting from March 16 to 20. That will give us time to familiarize ourselves with the large report. Then, on the 24th, we can discuss turnover rates in the Public Service.
11:50 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Derek Lee
Okay, so you don't want to question anything we've done so far; you're just looking further ahead. That's fine.
Now we're moving into the week of March 23. I'm just going to get the clerk to outline what's still to be done. We need to have the Public Service Commission in for that bundled item...or no, we've done the PSC. That was on March 10.
Does anybody here want to do appointments? There are about twenty of them. We do have one random victim, Patricia Hassard. She's a long-standing public servant, and she's excellent. We do want to have an appointment. This is with the Public Service Commission. She will come in at the same time as the Public Service Commission, and you'll get to ask your questions. That is March 10.
11:55 a.m.
Liberal
Martha Hall Findlay Liberal Willowdale, ON
I'm sorry, but my colleague here was saying that because the report was so thick, it wasn't necessarily an immediate priority. We have a break week in the middle of March, and the recommendation was that we do the public service piece after the break, after we've had a chance to absorb the report.
I thought that's what I had heard her say.
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Liberal
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Liberal
Martha Hall Findlay Liberal Willowdale, ON
That gives you more room, Mr. Chair. That should be a good thing. It gives you a little more flexibility.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Derek Lee
Timing, that's all it is.
Now I would invite you to fill in the March 12 date.
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An hon. member
You mean March 10.
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An hon. member
Nada.
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The Clerk
What about the supplementary estimates (C), Mr. Chair? We will need to report eventually.
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An hon. member
That makes sense.
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Liberal
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Derek Lee
Everybody's still happy?
So on March 24, we're finally at the Public Service Commission. We'll leave March 26 for kickback day.
Mr. Warkentin.
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Conservative
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Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
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Conservative
Chris Warkentin Conservative Peace River, AB
No, I agree, I think we should wait, but let me put in my two bits for having a discussion at some point with Madame Barrados with regard to the turnover within the public civil service. But it's not something we need to discuss today.