Evidence of meeting #1 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
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12:55 p.m.
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
Absolutely. I think that would be included under artificial intelligence.
12:55 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Pat Kelly
All right, is there unanimous consent to add the four-meeting cap on the study?
Yes?
12:55 p.m.
Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
Sorry, just to clarify, I'm wondering if four meetings would be sufficient to cover the topics that are in here.
12:55 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Pat Kelly
Okay, I'll take that as a "no" for unanimous consent then, and we'll—
12:55 p.m.
Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
Sorry, I'm not opposing it. I'm just questioning members as to whether they think that would be sufficient, and whether there are maybe one or two more meetings that could be added at the committee's discretion once the study begins.
12:55 p.m.
Bloc
René Villemure Bloc Trois-Rivières, QC
I agree with Ms. Khalid. I will propose an amendment to the motion for the number of meetings to be six.
12:55 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Pat Kelly
If I understand correctly, you're moving that we have six days. If there's no discussion, we will proceed to a vote on the amendment to have six meetings and then proceed to the main motion. Let's see if we can get this done.
12:55 p.m.
Conservative
John Brassard Conservative Barrie—Innisfil, ON
I just have a question on process. I don't think I've ever been involved in a study with more than six meetings.
Through you, Chair, to Mr. Green, where would we...the witnesses? You talked about the Privacy Commissioner. I'm sorry, I had to step out of the room, so you may have mentioned some other people.
12:55 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Pat Kelly
Mr. Brassard, those are two separate issues. He was going to move that as a separate item, hearing from the officers of Parliament.
12:55 p.m.
Conservative
John Brassard Conservative Barrie—Innisfil, ON
Okay, thanks.
I guess my question, Mr. Chair, still is about six meetings. That's a lot of witnesses. It's a lot of meetings. Would six suffice? Would four do the job, Mr. Green? I know we're....
12:55 p.m.
NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
I believe that an amending motion is on the floor, and so I'll concede. I said four because that seemed to be what came from my colleague, and now my colleague would like to expand it and make it six. I believe he does have the motion on the floor.
1 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Pat Kelly
All right. All those in favour of the amendment to the motion for a maximum of six meetings?
(Amendment agreed to)
The main motion is on the study itself. All those in favour of the main motion?
(Motion as amended agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Thank you very much, everyone.
With that, I think it is time.
The meeting is adjourned