Evidence of meeting #4 for Status of Women in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was groups.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Bruce Stanton Conservative Simcoe North, ON
We are still looking at two meetings, though, Madam Chair?
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Conservative
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The Clerk
It's up to the committee to decide.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
You have two meetings, and if you have six witnesses, you will be fine.
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
We'll have a busy day on Wednesday, but could you give it to us by Wednesday so that we can fill in as many blanks as we can?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
As the analyst has brought to my attention, perhaps we can decide whether we can study this in case we have the people who are giving us a gender budgeting overview. If the meetings cannot take place for the court challenges program, can we do it...until January?
It is getting very tight.
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Liberal
Maria Minna Liberal Beaches—East York, ON
I think our final discussions, suggestions, or recommendations probably wouldn't happen until we got back. I'm sure we can do the hearings before Christmas.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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The Clerk
I'm not sure we're doing hearings before Christmas either. I'm getting names on Wednesday and there are two weeks left, and you already have quite a bit booked. It depends on whether members are ready to put in the extra time, and I have to be able to get rooms.
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Conservative
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The Clerk
Then in January, as soon as you come back....
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Liberal
Maria Minna Liberal Beaches—East York, ON
Let's try to have at least one or two before we leave, Madam Chair.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
What we can do, Ms. Minna, if we look at our timetable here, is either leave the gender budgeting aside or leave the ministers aside, neither of which may be acceptable.
There is one meeting possible on December 5. We could target December 5, but you have to get the witnesses going as well. So they have to juggle a lot of things.
If you want two meetings in one day, especially when we're doing the gender budgeting analysis and we have international expertise—they are going to be doing it in the morning, and we could do another meeting in the afternoon—we can juggle, but I'd have to leave it to the clerk to determine how to juggle it, because they have to know who the witnesses are and when they are coming. They're playing with a tight timetable and a timetable of witnesses, to accommodate the witnesses.
