Information & Ethics Committee on Dec. 3rd, 2024

[Iqra Khalid, Liberal, Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I appreciate it.

[The Chair, Conservative, John Brassard]

Thank you.

Mr. Fisher.

[Darren Fisher, Liberal, Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS]

Thank you very much.

I asked our wonderful clerk earlier to give me an update on the request by the committee for the X documents. I would love it if the clerk would give us that update once again for the benefit of the rest of the committee so that it's not just me getting that update.

[The Chair, Conservative, John Brassard]

The request was made to Twitter. They were given until tomorrow to respond, which is seven days, and we are waiting for their response. We're going to give them until tomorrow, and then I can update the committee. We haven't received anything at this point, but I can update the committee if we do get a response through the clerk as well.

Thank you for that question, Mr. Fisher.

There are just a couple of things I want to mention. On the invitation list, we had Lyft and DoorDash. They have proposed to provide written submissions to the committee. I'm just telling you what's going on here. We haven't heard from SkipTheDishes at this point, but we expect to hear from them soon.

With regard to Thursday's business, we have the Privacy Commissioner coming for a second attempt at an appearance, and the notice will be going out soon.

I do have a committee budget for this study that I would like us to approve, but before I do that, I want to thank the witnesses.

Mr. Wedge, I want to thank you for appearing before the committee today.

Ms. Bednar, I know you told me in a sidebar that this was your first appearance at a committee—

[Vass Bednar]

Yes, it's the first one in person. I have been on the computer.

[The Chair, Conservative, John Brassard]

Okay. I want to thank you for taking the time to be here at the committee.

Mr. Hamel, thank you as well for taking the time to come and testify today. As I said, the clerk will send you questions from certain members of the committee. I think there will be four, and maybe a little more if Ms. Khalid also submits questions.

Thank you, Mr. Hamel, for being here.

[Jonathan Hamel]

Thank you.

[The Chair, Conservative, John Brassard]

I'm going to excuse the witnesses from this discussion. Thank you so much.

We have a proposed budget for this study. I know this wasn't on the agenda, but I have to deal with it: $8,750 on Uber rides, on Uber Eats—

[An hon. member]

That can barely feed us.

[The Chair, Conservative, John Brassard]

I'm a strong fiscal conservative when it comes to meals.

We have expenses for witnesses from Hamilton, Montreal, Scarborough and Toronto. Headsets, of course, are $250 each, every time we send out a headset. In this case, that represents about $2,000. Then, on working meals, I'm not sure how we got up to this price, but it's $500 each on that, so I have $8,750 total.

Are there any questions on the budget? Are we good?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, John Brassard]

Okay. The budget is approved. Thank you for that.

The meeting is adjourned. We'll see everybody on Thursday. Thank you.