I so move.
Evidence of meeting #1 for Subcommittee on the Review of the Anti-terrorism Act in the 39th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was de.
Evidence of meeting #1 for Subcommittee on the Review of the Anti-terrorism Act in the 39th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was de.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gord Brown
It is moved by Mr. Wappel, seconded by Mr. Cullen that the chair be authorized to hold meetings to receive evidence and to have that evidence printed when a quorum is not present, provided that at least three members are present, including a member of the opposition.
(Motion agreed to)
Conservative
Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
The correct way of saying this in French is: “disponibles dans les deux langues officielles”. If we say “dans deux langues officielles”, we're implying that there are more than two official languages, whereas in fact there are really only two.
Conservative
Liberal
Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
I'd like to correct the French version by inserting “les” between the words “dans” and “deux”.
Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
The expression “dans deux langues officielles” doesn't quite have the same meaning as “dans les deux langues officielles”. If we go with the motion as worded, “dans deux langues officielles” implies that there are more than two official languages.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gord Brown
Okay, we'll fix that.
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Moving along to--
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gord Brown
All right. It's moved by Mr. Wappel, seconded by Mr. Norlock, that we're going to have working meals.
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Liberal
Roy Cullen Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
I'm just wondering, before we get into the next routine motions, whether we shouldn't have a little discussion about what our plan of attack is--are we going to have more witnesses, the timelines, all this kind of stuff.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gord Brown
That is definitely a discussion we should have. We do have the benefit of a number of members of the committee who served on the last group who do have a lot of knowledge of the witnesses. We have to decide whether we want to recall some of those witnesses. We also should probably have a discussion on whether we wish to travel, or put in for travel, to learn more. That's a discussion we should have.
Liberal
Roy Cullen Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
I guess it's a reasonable working assumption that we'll have a witness or two or three. If we're not going to have any witnesses, we don't need to move number 5. I'm happy to go through the routine proceedings, but I think at some point we need to talk about what our plan of attack is.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gord Brown
We can get to that discussion, but I believe we'll find consensus.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gord Brown
It is moved by Mr. Cullen that witnesses be given ten minutes for their opening statement; that, at the discretion of the chair, during the questioning of witnesses, there be allocated seven minutes for the first questioner of each party, starting with the opposition parties, and that thereafter five minutes be allocated to each subsequent questioner, continuing with the opposition going first and alternating between government members and opposition members until every member has spoken once.
Do we have a seconder on that? Mr. MacKenzie.
(Motion agreed to)
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gord Brown
On witnesses' expenses, it is moved by Mr. Comartin, seconded by Mr. MacKenzie, that if requested, reasonable travel, accommodation, and living expenses be reimbursed to witnesses, not exceeding one representative per organization; and that, in exceptional circumstances, payment for more representatives be at the discretion of the chair.
(Motion agreed to)
