Evidence of meeting #65 for Canadian Heritage in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was witnesses.
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Liberal
Ted Hsu Liberal Kingston and the Islands, ON
Would there be some people from the Liberal list whom the Conservatives might be interested in inviting?
Conservative
Paul Calandra Conservative Oak Ridges—Markham, ON
We have 68 people right now who are prepared to appear before—
Conservative
Paul Calandra Conservative Oak Ridges—Markham, ON
Oh, 85. And we have a good list from all three parties. Perhaps we can start with that. As the study goes on, some of these people might fall off and more might come on. I'm not saying we don't reject whoever is left, but that we start and come back at some future date and review it some more.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rob Moore
Everyone currently on the pending decision that we haven't approved will remain on the pending decision.
Is there any specific couple you wanted to address?
Conservative
Paul Calandra Conservative Oak Ridges—Markham, ON
Scott, you can come to the table and talk. Nobody's going to bite.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rob Moore
Does anybody want to add to the list right now? If we go over it one by one, it's going to take too long.
Liberal
Ted Hsu Liberal Kingston and the Islands, ON
No, no. What we'd like to ask is whether there are any individuals in the list that particularly the government side, or the NDP, would reject, just so that we don't think about them at all. Are there some they just want to reject now?
That way, we know what to talk about—
Conservative
Paul Calandra Conservative Oak Ridges—Markham, ON
The point is that I don't know. Why don't we just see how the study goes? There might be some that....
We already took the ministers of education and put them to pending. We already took the former members of Parliament and put them to the pending list. I think we already have Jack Granatstein on our list.
If you want us to go over it right now and do them one by one, then I'll ask for a suspension and we can go over it again, or we can just do it one at a time. I'm easy.
NDP
Andrew Cash NDP Davenport, ON
I know I'm kind of late to the game here today, but did we not...? We have 85 on the list—
NDP
Andrew Cash NDP Davenport, ON
—that we've collectively agreed upon. Are you suggesting we go through the rest of them? Or what are you suggesting?
Conservative
Paul Calandra Conservative Oak Ridges—Markham, ON
I'm saying that we have 85. Let's leave the pending where it's at. Then we can come back to it once we've exhausted the 85 and add more to it.
I'm not saying reject them; let's just come back to them.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rob Moore
I think there's a consensus, then, and that's what we're going to do. We can always add others from the pending list. The clerk now has a number of 85 witnesses to invite from all three parties.
Is there any other committee business?
There's a motion to adjourn from Mr. Calandra.
The meeting is adjourned.