Evidence of meeting #1 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 40th Parliament, 3rd 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
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
That's the eleventh report.
Is there any discussion? All those in favour?
(Motion agreed to)
Mr. Poilievre.
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Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Nepean—Carleton, ON
What was your plan, Mr. Chair, regarding studies that we commenced and in fact completed, like the one on the Google mapping system, but whose reports are not yet authored? Do we have a plan to reopen the study just for the purpose of report drafting? Would you wrap them in a motion to that effect?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
I believe our standard practice is that, first of all, at our first full meeting, there would be a motion to bring forward the evidence, minutes, and transcripts from the prior session and adopt that into the current session. Then we could proceed as you have suggested, in that we would take the necessary steps to complete that work and report it to the House. But because of the prorogation, we don't have that testimony and that information still.
There's a precedent for that. We had a case with the Afghan study in the prior session. We actually brought forward the whole study and the report was done in one session. It came forward, we adopted it, and actually produced that report.
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
Yes. I think we will possibly have some further discussion as to the content of that report because it hasn't been drafted, but certainly that's something I think we should do since we have invested some good time in it.
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Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Nepean—Carleton, ON
So you would welcome a motion at the next meeting.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
I think we'll certainly be discussing this at the steering committee meeting next Tuesday. I'm very sure that it will be on our list of matters to suggest to the committee on how we might proceed.
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Liberal
Wayne Easter Liberal Malpeque, PE
On that matter, we all sit on other committees, and certainly on the agriculture committee that I sit on we had a competitive study that went way back to last February, actually, and was lost to a great extent because of prorogation. All we did was put a motion that all the evidence received on the issue of the competitive study be brought forward to this session. Then you can get on and do the report, but you need the motion to be able to do it. So we'll do it at the next meeting.
11:20 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
I think we have a plan. So we'll have steering committee next Tuesday and the first full committee on Thursday. Proper notices will be issued by our clerk, Jacques Maziade.
I hope that you get to know our clerk and Alysia and Dara, our analysts, who have provided excellent service, support, and assistance to our committee in the past. We are very blessed to have them.
It's nice to see all of you.
By the way, we had a baby, right?
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Voices
Oh, oh!
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
No, there was another analyst, but Alysia, maybe you could advise the committee.
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Committee Researcher
Élise Hurtubise-Loranger had a little boy named Émile. He came to visit us in the office a few days ago. He's very cute and doing very well, so everyone is happy.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Paul Szabo
That's excellent.
Well, that's a very good start for us.
Colleagues, I know we're all busy. There's no further business, so we're adjourned.