Evidence of meeting #35 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was report.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
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Conservative
Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
By my calculation, you've been speaking for almost 20 minutes. Can you explain to me if you are speaking on a Liberal round of questions?
I'm not exactly sure what's going on here; I'm just trying to understand the rules.
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Conservative
Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON
Well, it's a point of clarification. Can you explain what's going on right now?
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Conservative
Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON
No, I started timing you at 10 minutes. You heard the beeper go about five minutes ago.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
There is a transcript and it shows times, and we'll deal with this outside of the meeting.
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Now, I also went around the room--to you explicitly--and I asked if you were finished. You said, yes, you were finished. I did the same for the NDP, the same for the Bloc, and the same for the Liberals.
Then the chair, because there were no more questioners who sought the floor, wanted to.... As I indicated to you in the last meeting and explained to you in the last meeting, the chair has the responsibility to continue or to provide the continuity of things--the “where do we go from here?”
The chair has that discretion. If you would like to have some further input....
Excuse me, Mr. Del Mastro.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
I accept your apology.
If you believe that the chair has participated in this committee activity in an improper way or is out of order, you have tools to deal with that, if you care to do that.
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
You're welcome.
Madam Legault, Ms. Campbell, and Ms. Neill, I want to thank you very much for this. I'm going to invite you to continue our good relationship on this matter and to keep us informed on developments that relate to your mandate, because the committee would like to continue its dialogue on this. I know that it's been a very long meeting. It's been one of the longest we've had on the subject, but it deserves it.
We have some related or other business before us that I would like to go to before we have to adjourn at noon.
I thank you, again, on behalf of all the members. You are excused.
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Interim Information Commissioner, Office of the Information Commissioner of Canada
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
We'll just wait a moment.
Colleagues, we now have the matter of the motion that was moved by Pat Martin, which has been circulated to you. It is a motion that arose during the consideration of the committee's business of the day, which was to consider the justice minister's response to our quick-fix recommendations on the Access to Information Act.
There is a point of order.
11:55 a.m.
Conservative
Bob Dechert Conservative Mississauga—Erindale, ON
With respect to the motion that's just been placed in front of us, my understanding is that this is the first time we've seen it in writing. Is that correct?
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Liberal
