Evidence of meeting #17 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was staff.
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Conservative
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NDP
David Christopherson NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
Well, it's either me or nothing right now, I'm afraid. I'm willing to change that—
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Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
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NDP
David Christopherson NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
—but I think I might need an election first. I kind of liked it back up there, to tell you the truth.
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Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
I'm not for that myself, you understand. I would have voted for you had I not been voting for me.
Anyway, that's what I suggest. Maybe we could meet and schedule it at, say, 8 p.m. as a possibility, because we're having dinner anyway.
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An hon. member
Yes.
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NDP
David Christopherson NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
Yes. I can also work at getting someone to represent me.
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An hon. member
Send Tyler, your legislative assistant.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
How long do you want to go? I guess an hour is our normal time with a witness. We usually have an hour for two or three witnesses, so that would be all we need for the one.
We'll try for 8 o'clock on the Tuesday. If they're not available, we'll try for before our dinner, and you could get someone else, David
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
If they're not available at all, we'll revisit it by either email or whatever.
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Liberal
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Liberal
David Graham Liberal Laurentides—Labelle, QC
I'm available from 8:30 p.m. I'm hesitant to say that I'd be there for 8 o'clock.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
You can come late. You won't be first on the speakers list.
Now we'll go back to the point of privilege. I think we should at least start that discussion, at least for the first hour, in our next meeting. Are there any proposals?
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NDP
David Christopherson NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
Can I ask a question through you to the clerk?
I can't recall, but is it an absolute must-do when a matter of privilege is sent to us that it go to the top of our list, or is it just by tradition that normally we do that?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
Sometimes it does. Once it took a couple of months. Often it comes early, but there's no—
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NDP
David Christopherson NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
I was only asking because my experience is that these things are usually treated as a matter of priority out of consideration for the individuals, and out of respect that it's been sent to us by the Speaker. I would be in favour of treating it as a priority and getting at least that first hour in, so we can get a sense of timing for what's fair and provides justice to everyone involved.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
If we set aside the first hour for that, to plan that, then we could see what the elections people thought of having one hour instead of two.
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NDP
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
We'll fill it with other witnesses then.
For that first hour...sorry, Mr. Chan.