Evidence of meeting #3 for Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was may.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
John Aldag Liberal Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
How long does the review take? We don't set aside two hours.
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Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
On either the 7th and 9th we could take part of the day to come back....
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Liberal
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NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
The length that committees take on reports is usually correlated with the contentiousness of the report itself. If you have something that's somewhat adversarial, there's the haggling and the arguing and a dissenting report and those types of things. I don't get the sense that parks is going to be that way. You never know but that's the correlation. If it's something really hot and bothered for folks, then it takes a while. But if we get the draftings out.... We talked about the report going to the 14th.
1:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
The 7th, 9th, and 14th will be climate. Penny, do you think you could pull the report together for the 16th of June if you get your drafting instructions on the 12th of May? Then the 21st and the 23rd will be CEPA. How's that?
1:30 p.m.
Liberal
John Aldag Liberal Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
The only question is, do we need to set aside the full two hours on June 16 for the review?
1:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
I think at this point we should put it aside so we have the flexibility to shuffle things, if we need to, and as we start to see how May plays out.
Cynara is telling me that we can add another meeting if we feel we need to, although I know people's schedules are pretty jammed. We can also extend the meeting, as we are right now in a regular meeting, to try to get some more time to do that. Respecting everybody's time, I'll see how we can make it work. As always, I'm in consultation with you. If things look like they are starting to change we can get that sorted.
So I think we're ready to bring that forward to committee, and we`ll then need witnesses for the 3rd, the 5th, the 10th and the 12th.
1:30 p.m.
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
What process are you suggesting? Sometimes we do a deferral to the chair and your staff to go through and apportion witnesses. Parties usually come forward with a ranked sort of process, with their highest priority witness first and then further down the line. Are you imagining today that we're going to go through and circle and pick and choose, or is it a report back simply to let us know who is coming?
1:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
I had thought we could prioritize and make sure we know who we're going after, because—
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Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
I would just as soon go back and consult with my other two and fire them off to you on Thursday when we're here.
1:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
If that's what you'd like to do, we're here to serve and to try to find a balance of witnesses. I think we've done very well. Cynara and Penny and Tim have been very consultative with me. I've been consultative with you guys. I think it has worked out very well; we've had the people we need in front of us. So if you want to send me your messages for Thursday so that we know whom you're proposing. Don't just send me the names, send me your priorities, because sometimes—
1:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Yes, rank them, please. It would be very helpful. And for the CEPA ones, can you rank those ones that you've sent us? We have witnesses who we haven't heard yet. Can you give us some ranking on the CEPA ones as well, so we know whom we're really pushing to try to get and which of the ones, if they don't call us back, we can leave? You know, we're trying to figure it out.
There's one last thing I need to ask you. There's an Indonesian delegation that is coming on Thursday. How many members are going to attend? We need to get a sense of who will go.
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NDP
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay, can you, please?
Jim, is there anybody from your team? I think Mr. Fast said he wanted to go.
1:30 p.m.
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
Yes, I think he did. I don't know about Martin, but I'm tied up that night.
1:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
No, it's not in the night, it's in the morning. It's happening before this committee meeting in the morning at 9:30. I think it's in the same area that we're going—
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A voice
It's in this room.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Yes. So we don't have everybody running back and forth, we tried to put it in the same area.
1:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
That would be great.
How about our side, what are we doing?
John, are you coming to that?
You guys can send me an e-mail. I don't want to hold you up while you're all figuring it out, but we'd like to know because we need to make sure that we—
