Evidence of meeting #15 for Canadian Heritage in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was angus.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Conservative
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Liberal
Mauril Bélanger Liberal Ottawa—Vanier, ON
I can share the correspondence I received. Most of you might have received it too. I'll send the correspondence to our research staff so they can follow it up.
4:20 p.m.
Conservative
4:20 p.m.
NDP
Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON
I'm not against it; I don't know anything about it. But again, we have an outstanding motion about the court challenges program, which is a major issue right now. I would prefer holding off on those two dates until we know whether or not we have consensus at this table that we want to be hearing from the court challenges people soon.
4:20 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
On both of those? Well, why don't we leave November 6 open? We'll leave November 1 for the museum witnesses. Again, because of some of the pending motions here and how we're going, maybe what we should do....
Does that help our research staff? Does that get you far enough ahead right now, that we could have...?
4:20 p.m.
Conservative
Chris Warkentin Conservative Peace River, AB
Well, we haven't come to the native art collection, have we?
4:20 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
No, we've just postponed it. We could have it on November 8.
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Conservative
Chris Warkentin Conservative Peace River, AB
Let's block it in, because we know we want to listen to them.
4:20 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Mr. Angus, would you suggest we have the Indian art collection on November 8? Would that be okay? We'd leave November 6 open.
4:20 p.m.
NDP
Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON
Well, as long as the date's left open. That's my only concern.
4:20 p.m.
Conservative
Chris Warkentin Conservative Peace River, AB
Mr. Angus had the suggestion about the francophones who don't live in Quebec, the funding that they...we should put that one in someplace. Because that will take some time, to get some people in from different areas.
4:20 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Okay, so on November 8 we do the Indian art.
Would we go to your francophone groups outside of Quebec?
4:25 p.m.
NDP
Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON
Yes, I agree it would take us some time, so we could do that after the break. That would probably give them enough time to get prepared.
4:25 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
November 20? Then on November 22 we could look at the response from the government on the feature film industry.
4:25 p.m.
Liberal
Mauril Bélanger Liberal Ottawa—Vanier, ON
Either that or the video...because they were in dire straits; they have been for so long now. It would be good to look at that and see if we could give them a bit of a breather.
4:25 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Okay, that's the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund.
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Liberal
Mauril Bélanger Liberal Ottawa—Vanier, ON
And at some point in this, necessity being the mother of invention, it probably kills two....
4:25 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Let's put that in then for November 22. It might even relate back to something that came out of copyright or out of the feature films, because I don't think we stayed directly on film through that particular thing. I think there's some....
Yes, Mr. Angus.
4:25 p.m.
NDP
Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON
If we're going to look at film, there are some areas, I think, that jump out from there as unfinished business; for example, Telefilm. We spent a fair amount of time just getting up to speed on Telefilm last session. Following our film review, it would probably be worthwhile, just to get everybody back up to speed, to have Telefilm here, because it is a major player in cultural programs. It would help our new members.
As well, I would suggest following that with the Canadian Television Fund, which again is a big player. We really need to be up to speed as a committee on what happens with these organizations, how the funds are allocated and who they serve.
4:25 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Just as a suggestion, could we even split a meeting with the Canadian video people and the feature films?
4:25 p.m.
Liberal
Mauril Bélanger Liberal Ottawa—Vanier, ON
I suspect that would be a disservice to both, Mr. Chairman.
I'm feeling a little awkward here. You've been fairly adroit at setting up the following meetings, Mr. Chairman, and although I can't speak for everybody on this side, as far as I'm concerned I have a great deal of confidence in your capacity to get an agenda with some logic in it and move us forward.
You've heard all of our wishes, and if we consult with members on a periodic basis in terms of other things as they come up, I'm sure we'll go forward quite capably. I'm trusting your ability to make sure we do productive work.
4:25 p.m.
Some hon. members
Agreed.