Evidence of meeting #125 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 anderson.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
Yes, I think that all the committee members here agree that the name should be made public.
Bloc
René Villemure Bloc Trois-Rivières, QC
Okay. It's because, earlier, when we asked Mr. Anderson to send the name in writing, it wasn't clear whether the information was public. I want to be sure that everything will be made public.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
Yes. It will certainly be public, Mr. Villemure.
I don't see any other hands or any other discussion on the motion, so I'm going to ask if we have consensus on the motion.
(Motion agreed to)
I want to thank members of the committee for their work on coming to an agreement on that.
I'm going to Mr. Barrett now.
Mr. Barrett, go ahead, sir.
Conservative
Larry Brock Conservative Brantford—Brant, ON
Chair, I move:
That, in relation to the study of the compliance of a minister with the Conflict of Interest Act, Minister Randy Boissonnault be called to appear before the committee during a regular meeting on the week of September 16, 2024, for two hours.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
The motion has been moved by Mr. Barrett, and it's in order.
Do we have any discussion on the motion?
Go ahead, Mr. Naqvi.
Liberal
Yasir Naqvi Liberal Ottawa Centre, ON
There are two things I want to say.
One, Minister Boissonnault has been at this committee, and he has testified in detail and provided documents, etc. I appreciate that the request is for when the House is back.
If I could maybe seek a friendly amendment, I would suggest that one hour should be sufficient given the time that he has already spent at this committee, and it would probably work best for scheduling. He could be made available for one hour.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
If you're going to move an amendment, I need you to move it officially, Mr. Naqvi, because friendly amendments don't work around here.
Liberal
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
The amendment that it be for one hour has been moved by Mr. Naqvi.
On the amendment, is there any other discussion? I don't see any.
Do we have consensus on the amendment?
We do not. We will call the vote on the amendment to reduce the time from two hours in the motion to one hour.
(Amendment agreed to: yeas 6; nays 4)
We're on the main motion as amended right now.
Is there any other discussion on that? I see none.
Do we have consensus on the main motion as amended?
Mr. Villemure and Mr. Naqvi, I haven't seen any indication.
We are now on the main motion as amended. Is there consensus?
(Motion as amended agreed to on division [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
Thank you for that.
I have no other business—well, we do have other business, don't worry, I am going to say that—in relation to this issue, Madam Clerk.
We have a study budget that needs to be approved, in the amount of....
Madam Clerk, can you just remind me of what the study budget was for this study?
I'm sorry, members of the committee. I did have it here. I don't know where it went.
The study amount is $3,450, which takes care of airfare, headsets and other issues.
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Thank you.
I don't have any other public business.
We are going to move in camera to deal with an access to information request—just give us a couple of minutes.
Thank you to our clerk for organizing this, to our analysts and our technicians for being here in the middle of summer. To our guest clerk today, thank you for your advice as well. To our interpreters as well, thank you.
The meeting is suspended for a couple of minutes.
[Proceedings continue in camera]