Canadian Heritage Committee on June 10th, 2010

[Pablo Rodriguez, Liberal, Honoré-Mercier, QC]

Is it up to him to choose whatever project it might be?

[Richard Dicerni]

If he had carte blanche, he could choose from the 131 projects that were submitted.

[Pablo Rodriguez, Liberal, Honoré-Mercier, QC]

Perfect. Did he have carte blanche when it comes to the projects that were selected?

[Richard Dicerni]

He has the discretion to identify the best projects that will enable him to achieve the program objectives.

[Carole Lavallée, Bloc, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC]

Good lord, your skates are sharp! My, my.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gary Schellenberger]

Okay. I think that brings us to the end of our questions.

Madame Lavallée.

[Carole Lavallée, Bloc, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC]

I have a request to make, Mr. Chair.

[Dean Del Mastro, Conservative, Peterborough, ON]

I'm still up, Mr. Chair.

[Carole Lavallée, Bloc, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC]

Yes, but I requested the floor before you, Mr. Del Mastro.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gary Schellenberger]

You had your extra turn.

[Carole Lavallée, Bloc, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC]

Yes, but I thought that... I don't want to speak, I want to ask...

[The Chair, Conservative, Gary Schellenberger]

You had an extra turn. Do you want to ask me something?

[Carole Lavallée, Bloc, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC]

I have something to ask you. I would like the Canadian Tourism Commission to send us a breakdown of how the $8 million in question was spent and what results are expected or have already been obtained.

I'm not too familiar with the procedure for making an official request for a document like that. Does it take a proper motion, or should I just ask them for it? I don't know.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gary Schellenberger]

I guess we can—

[Carole Lavallée, Bloc, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC]

Or I ask for it now and...

[The Chair, Conservative, Gary Schellenberger]

As chair, I imagine we can make the “ask”, if it can be done.

[Carole Lavallée, Bloc, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC]

Do we ask the deputy minister for it?

[The Chair, Conservative, Gary Schellenberger]

We can ask the deputy minister.

[Richard Dicerni]

The Canadian Tourism Commission is a Crown corporation. It is independent and has its own board of directors. I can ask the people in charge there for it.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gary Schellenberger]

Okay. Thank you.

[Pablo Rodriguez, Liberal, Honoré-Mercier, QC]

Can we also have the list of the 88 projects that were approved, through you?

[Richard Dicerni]

As I told you, with the constraint I mentioned, it depends on what information we have in our records. There are no criteria that...

[Pablo Rodriguez, Liberal, Honoré-Mercier, QC]

No, I want to know whether you can submit the list of the 88 projects from which he chose projects.

[Richard Dicerni]

Excuse me?

[Pablo Rodriguez, Liberal, Honoré-Mercier, QC]

I'm asking for the complete list of projects submitted.