Evidence of meeting #58 for Status of Women in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.
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Bloc
Nicole Demers Bloc Laval, QC
In his answer to a question of privilege by Mrs. Davies, he said,
It would be unfortunate to start this final week this way--“this final week”.
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Liberal
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Conservative
Joy Smith Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul, MB
No, I really don't. I don't know when we're going to be adjourning, but my feeling is that some people do believe it's June 8. I'm not in that group. I feel we have to be cautious, and we have to make sure our work is done. I agree with Ms. Mathyssen. If we could look at the reports and come back intelligently--and we have to be very mindful of the fact that it has to be done before June 8 in case--and if we could be very disciplined and get that done, that would be good, because I always like, when I'm looking at a report, to know what I'm saying. You don't have long, drawn-out conversations then. You know why you're saying what you're saying. We have to be very mindful of June 8, even though I don't believe we'll be dismissed by then. I don't know. I have no idea. So let's just be very prudent.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
So that we understand the timetable of a report, we need 48 hours. Once we agree to the report and make editorial or grammatical changes, there has to be 48 hours before it can be tabled in the House, so we will need those 48 hours.
Now, I am agreeable that if we decide on Thursday that the committee members will take it, review it, and send in their feedback over the weekend, Monday would be the day that we would have all the feedback, and at the Tuesday meeting you would actually be executing the report in a very automatic way. I mean you'll execute the report, and it has to be on a firm timeline. So if we do that, then perhaps we'll be ready for submission to the House on June 8.
We need to get this report into the House, I'm hoping before the summer, whenever the summer break is. Nobody knows.
Yes, Mr. Stanton.
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Conservative
Bruce Stanton Conservative Simcoe North, ON
Madam Chair, on this question of timing, I want to add that the parliamentary calendar takes us to June 22. I have no knowledge of what was said; this is news. Perhaps I missed it when this occurred, but regardless of what words may have been said or speculated about, there has to be unanimity among the parties before that calendar changes to anything but June 22. So we have to assume that we're continuing on until we hear otherwise.
4:15 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
Fair enough. So Thursday?
If I hear from the members that they want the report to be given to them, they want to take time to read through it on private time, on the condition that by the weekend you must send in your feedback.
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A voice
By Friday?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
By Friday would be fine. Friday, Saturday, Sunday max. I could give you until Monday morning. So Monday morning would be the last time that we would look at it, in order to meet those very tight timelines.
The clerk has asked me a very valid question. If we are not going to review the report on Thursday, do you really want a meeting, or shall we just send the report over to your offices?
Okay, so there will be no meeting on Thursday. The report will be e-mailed to you, and you will work on the report. Monday is the deadline for submitting any changes, and that way we will be very tight with our timeline.
Do you want it e-mailed or a paper copy? There is more risk with e-mail. Stick with hard copy with your names on it, so that if you know it's private, nothing can be leaked from that report.
On that note, I would like to ask Ms. Smith to please chair the meeting next Tuesday, because I am going with your minister to an APEC conference.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
If the report is ready by Thursday, please present it to the House.