Industry Committee on March 24th, 2011

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

I'd still like to know, today before 5:30, who's coming and who requested them.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Sweet]

The clerk assures me he only pays actual expenses, and that's it.

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

To whom?

[The Chair, Conservative, David Sweet]

To the witnesses.

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

He's been a clerk for many years, and I'm sure he knows the rules. He's very good.

I want to know what witnesses are still to come for Bill C-568.

[The Clerk]

For Bill C-568 we had the Canadian Association of University Teachers confirmed for, let's say, March 29.

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

Who asked them to come?

[The Clerk]

It will take me a few minutes. Could I give you the names, and then I'll find out who asked for the witnesses?

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

Give us the names and then....

[The Clerk]

For March 29, we had the Canadian Association of University Teachers,

the Fédération québécoise des professeures et professeurs d'université,

the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Canadian Council on Social Development, the Canadian Association for Business Economics,

the Institute for Research on Public Policy.

On April 5, we will have the Fédération francophones et acadienne du Canada. These were confirmed for Bill C-568.

For Investment Canada, on Thursday, March 31, we have the Quebec Employers' Council, the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec.

There's the Hon. Donald Johnston, the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, the City of Thompson, the Canadian Auto Workers Union, the Canadian Labour Congress, and the United Steelworkers of Canada.

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

Those are people we'll have to ask back today.

[The Clerk]

They were confirmed witnesses.

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

Can you tell me who invited the witnesses for the private member's bill? Whose witnesses are they? Let me put it that way. They could be ours; I don't know.

I think all parties provide the names of the witnesses we'd like to see. Then they decide to balance it off. That's how that works, so I'd like to see who invited whom.

[Dan McTeague, Liberal, Pickering—Scarborough East, ON]

Chair, it's not a point of order, but in concert with what Mr. Lake has suggested, I'm looking at the clock, and it's just about 5:30 now. We would have no difficulty if you saw the clock as 5:30.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Sweet]

I'd like to give the clerk enough discretion to look at these expenses, considering that tomorrow might be a big day.

[Dan McTeague, Liberal, Pickering—Scarborough East, ON]

Yes. I'm just concerned that we've gone beyond the 5:30 period.

[Mike Wallace, Conservative, Burlington, ON]

Why don't we move to pay the expenses? I'll support that.

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[Mike Lake, Conservative, Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB]

We'll get the clerk to table the information about the parties.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Sweet]

The meeting is adjourned.