Evidence of meeting #28 for Finance in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was meeting.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Two meetings maximum.
Do I have approval from the committee to schedule two meetings in the fall on this?
Mr. Pacetti.
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Liberal
Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
There are no outstanding points, from our point of view. We'd prefer to have one meeting--
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Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
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Liberal
Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
--if all parties can decide, and I can leave it to the parliamentary secretary to make sure all parties are on side.
I don't see the need. There's nothing controversial in it. We said we'd let it go, but I'd prefer not to okay a meeting if we're going to have a meeting that's going to require filibustering. I prefer to waive my approval that we have even one meeting on this.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Okay. We'll book one meeting, and we'll have one meeting maximum on this bill.
Mr. Menzies.
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Conservative
Ted Menzies Conservative Macleod, AB
Can I suggest that if we have a one-hour presentation from someone and we need to fill an hour...perhaps we could do it that way? Maybe it's a better use of our time.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Okay. Thank you. That's all I need agreement on today.
Mr. Pacetti.
Sorry, Mr. Wallace.
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Conservative
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Liberal
Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
It's just on the second leg of the pre-budget...the eastern. Where are we going?
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The Clerk
We're going to London for two days, Lebel-sur-Quévillon, and St. John's, Newfoundland.
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Liberal
Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
We have people who want to appear in Montreal.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Mr. Pacetti, there was an agreement by the committee to go to Lebel-sur-Quévillon.
It will likely be easier for them to come to Ottawa.
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Liberal
Massimo Pacetti Liberal Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel, QC
I thought we had changed the plan somewhere along the line, because we had agreed that it was going to be in St. John's. Okay. C'est beau. Merci.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Mike Wallace Conservative Burlington, ON
I have a couple of questions, Mr. Chairman.
First of all, do we need a motion to have no motions or quorum calls or any of that stuff on the road?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
It's up to the committee. It would make my job as chair a lot easier.
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Conservative
Mike Wallace Conservative Burlington, ON
I'll move that motion, whatever that motion is called, you know the standard motion on....
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
That there be no dilatory motions during pre-budget consultations.
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Conservative
Mike Wallace Conservative Burlington, ON
I'm moving that, and then I would still like to be on the speakers' list because I have other questions.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Conservative
Mike Wallace Conservative Burlington, ON
Thank you.
The second question I have for you is for our own scheduling. When we're in Ottawa you have meetings every day of the week, basically, but Thursday. Do we have any sense of what time of the day they would be on the Monday and Tuesday? Are we sticking with the same timeframe or what?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Rajotte
Obviously, Monday and Wednesday are 3:30 to 5:30. I'm open for discussion about Tuesday.