Evidence of meeting #48 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was campaign.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Order. Order, please.
The witnesses have provided us with copies of documents to be circulated. I have just received the--
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Excuse me. The documents are here at the table, and they are being circulated. We waited until the proceedings started.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
One is English only, and as you know our rules, I can't circulate things without.... I wanted to get the okay from Madame Lavallée first.
Bloc
Carole Lavallée Bloc Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC
As an exception, and I do mean "an exception", for the present purposes and given the urgency of the situation, the Bloc Québécois is prepared to agree to the document being distributed even though it is not in French.
Liberal
August 13th, 2008 / 10:20 a.m.
Conservative
Conservative
Gary Goodyear Conservative Cambridge, ON
Mr. Chair, I would like to ask why you don't have Madame Lavallée's phone number? When did you receive these documents, and why weren't they handed out right away? Why did you not seek this type of accommodation prior to this? Why do you continue to withhold documents from these proceedings? When do you expect us to prepare for these witnesses when you're handing out the documents now--a whole box of which we still have not received? What is going on in this completely illegitimate forum?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Order, please. Mr. Goodyear has asked a valid question about when I got the documents.
Mr. Campbell, could you advise the committee when I received the documents?
As an Individual
We brought the documents this morning, and it was just a moment ago when we brought them for distribution.
If I might add to that, the invoice is essentially numbers and markets. The letter is actually in both official languages.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Thank you.
I hope that's acceptable, Mr. Goodyear. The chair and the clerk just received these documents when the witnesses arrived this morning. Therefore, your conclusion about withholding documents, I think, was maybe premature.
I would like to now--
Liberal
Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC
The Liberal Party also accepts that these documents are distributed, even though they're not bilingual.
Thank you.