Evidence of meeting #49 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 elections.
A recording is available from Parliament.
4:50 p.m.
NDP
Pat Martin NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
Listen, Mr. Chairman, you do not have to go through every musing of one member of the committee—well, he's not even a member of the committee.
4:50 p.m.
NDP
Pat Martin NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
One member of the opposition bench put forward a bunch of objections. That doesn't mean you have to spend days, hours—
4:50 p.m.
Conservative
4:50 p.m.
NDP
4:50 p.m.
Conservative
4:50 p.m.
NDP
Pat Martin NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
You've tied the chairman in a knot. He's seen fit to answer every one of your petty little grievances that you've filed over the last three days—
4:50 p.m.
Conservative
4:50 p.m.
NDP
Pat Martin NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
—he's finished with that now, and now we have agenda items that we want to get back to.
4:50 p.m.
NDP
Pat Martin NDP Winnipeg Centre, MB
Don't humour him. He sits there at the front bench and you engage him in these one-on-one conversations while 14 of us are tied up watching you. It's ridiculous.
4:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Sometimes we get a lot of venting happening.
Thank you. Please bear with me just for a moment. Mr. Goodyear took a fair bit of time—
4:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
—to go through and provide the chair with what he listed as undertakings that were important to complete so that all members were up to speed—
4:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
I understand that.
I have answered, I believe, the substantive points and questions and provided the material. He asked if he could make just a couple of—
4:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Okay, I will next time, but I want to finish this off, and then I want to go to the point that you raised, sir, the substantive point, which was with regard to the summonsing issue.
