Evidence of meeting #10 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was need.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Blaine Calkins
That's right, and to have translation done before we get back on May 31 is probably doable.
Liberal
Raj Saini Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
But I'm asking.... He doesn't seem....
You don't think he can do it.
Committee Researcher
I think we could probably.... You might want to have a debate on the day before, and I was factoring that in. Often, in my experience, we would give time over the weekend to have a look at it, but we could write it and get it to translation earlier and, say, get it back before June 1 so that you could look at it on June 2.
Liberal
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Blaine Calkins
We would want to look at it for a few hours before we come to committee. I think that's what we're trying to get at here.
That gives us the day of May 31 when we need to find something to do. I'm assuming we still have the other study on hold, which is the privacy one.
I'll instruct the clerk to fill that day with witnesses for the privacy review. Is that okay?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Blaine Calkins
We'll already have a report drafted and in translation. There's no point in hearing witnesses on access to information at that point in time, so we may as well resume with the privacy study on May 31. Then we will set aside June 2, 7, and 9 for consideration of the draft report. If we're done sooner, then we can resume with the privacy study at that particular point in time.
Does that sound reasonable, colleagues?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Blaine Calkins
Michael and Chloé, do you have everything you need?
Okay.
I will work with the clerk, and we will try to fill up the witness slots with the most salient witnesses we can, in the time we have.
Liberal
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Liberal Beaches—East York, ON
There's one.... For the purposes of working together as a committee, we have the 85 recommendations as a starting point, realistically, and I think we're going to try—and if you guys are able to, try to do this as well—checking off items you're going to agree with, items that you have questions about, items that you disagree with. Then, when we have that discussion, there's immediately going to be consensus, so that we can immediately tell the analysts the things we all agree on, and we can narrow to what we're really having the conversation about.
It would be helpful on our end and I think probably helpful for the committee.
Conservative
Matt Jeneroux Conservative Edmonton Riverbend, AB
I think that's reasonable on our end. I think you probably get a sense of where our questions are, and certain things that we have more questions about. You can probably do some of that now, if you want to.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Blaine Calkins
All right, fair enough. Everybody is good.
Thank you very much. We'll see you next week.
The meeting is adjourned.
