Canada-China Relations Committee on June 13th, 2022

[Raquel Dancho, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I wasn't sure what Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe was saying, or if he wants to clarify it. I was going to make a suggestion.

Mr. Oliphant and Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe, you have some good ideas.

I don't know if Ms. McPherson wanted to do a study on Taiwan, but I think the Liberals, the Bloc and the Conservatives wanted to do one.

This is obvious. Everyone has their own good ideas. I do think Mr. Oliphant laid out a very responsible plan. I love the idea of having an intro from the officials. That sounds like a great way to kick off this committee. But I also appreciate that Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe's team has done the hard work of already bringing forward a motion. I suggest that we have the subcommittee meet and talk about this. I think we're really getting into the weeds here.

I think you'd get a lot more done if the four of you could meet and settle on what to do. We have the time next Tuesday or Monday. I would suggest that the four of you get in a room and finalize this. Otherwise, we could be here for another 45 minutes and not get a lot done. I would suggest that this happen on Monday of next week.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ken Hardie]

How does that look to all?

[Michael Chong, Conservative, Wellington—Halton Hills, ON]

That sounds great, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ken Hardie]

Do we need a motion to that effect or can we just wave a magic wand?

[Rob Oliphant, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

I think to be fair to the analyst, we should give a little bit.... If nothing is expected of the analyst by next Monday, that's fine; that's fair. If something is expected on the scope of this study, I think we have to tell him a little bit more about what we're talking about.

What I would suggest is that we don't do that tonight, but we say that we'll talk about that at that meeting and together in a circle will try to come up with how much of it do we want to do on multilateral engagement, etc. There are many topics, because we've studied Taiwan before at other committees. We could come up with something, but I think we need to be a little bit more specific before we get the analyst to prepare something, because Taiwan's a big issue.

[Raquel Dancho, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

Mr. Chair, I think that's why I suggested you meet as a subcommittee, so it's very well outlined.

[Rob Oliphant, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

Yes, let the subcommittee meet without the analyst having done the work and then we come up with something. Then the analyst can do some work over the summer, because he doesn't get holidays.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ken Hardie]

We don't either, you know.

Does that represent to all members a reasonable agenda for a meeting next week, next Monday?

[Some hon. members]

Yes.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ken Hardie]

Very good. We'll make it so.

Is there any other business?

We're adjourned.