Finance Committee on Nov. 3rd, 2009

Evidence of meeting #62 for Finance in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was c-51.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-51, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on January 27, 2009 and to implement other measures

MPs speaking

James Rajotte
John McCallum
Jean-Yves Laforest
Jean-Yves Roy
Kelly Block
Thomas Mulcair
Massimo Pacetti

Also speaking

Gary Friend  President, Canadian Home Builders' Association
Michael Rowe  Vice-President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Home Depot Canada
Ken Georgetti  President, Canadian Labour Congress
Alexa Conradi  President, Fédération des femmes du Québec
John Butler  Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Jean-Claude Grondin  President, FADOQ Mouvement des Aînés du Québec
Ian Dale  Senior Vice-President, Communications and Stakeholder Relations, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

11:35 a.m.

Liberal

Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC

Wait a sec. Are we amending, or are we...?

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative James Rajotte

There are no amendments to the bill.

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Liberal

Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC

No amendments even for the CPP? Oh, okay. I thought there was an amendment. Okay.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative James Rajotte

Unless you have an amendment, Mr. Pacetti.

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Liberal

Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC

No, no. I thought we had...okay.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative James Rajotte

Shall the chair report the bill to the House on division?

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Some hon. members

Agreed.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative James Rajotte

We're done.

So I will report this, I believe, tomorrow afternoon to the House.

I want to thank the members for their work.

I just want to point out one thing to members, just on a personal note. One of our interpreters, Susan, who's been with this committee a long time, is departing this afternoon, I believe for Cambodia. She's going to be working there for a year. I just wanted all the committee to thank her for all her tremendous work.

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Some hon. members

Hear, hear!

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative James Rajotte

Thank you, colleagues.

I want to thank you all for your work over the past weeks.

We'll see the subcommittee at 3:30 this afternoon.

The meeting is adjourned.