Finance Committee on Nov. 19th, 2012

Evidence of meeting #92 for Finance in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was need.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Pre-budget Consultations 2012

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Christopher Smillie Senior Advisor, Government Relations and Public Affairs, Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO

Scott McAlpine President, Douglas College, and Board Member, Canadian Bureau for International Education

Karen Cohen Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Psychological Association

Steven Liss Vice-Principal of Research, Queen's University, Council of Ontario Universities

Richard Phillips Executive Director, Grain Growers of Canada

John Lounds President and Chief Executive Officer, Nature Conservancy of Canada

Rachel Gouin Manager, Research and Public Policy, Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada

Gordon McBean Chairman, Board of Directors, Canadian Climate Forum

Alice Aiken Director, Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research

Joyce Reynolds Executive Vice-President, Government Affairs, Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association

Diane Brisebois President and Chief Executive Officer, Retail Council of Canada

6:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative James Rajotte

I appreciate that. My time is up. It's a very large debate. We'll have to get into it later with the experts, such as Mr. Hoback and Monsieur Caron.

I do want to thank all of you for presenting and responding to our questions on the issues. It was a very interesting panel.

I do want to apologize for the temperature in this room. We've had many complaints about the cold temperature here, so I'm going to put it on the record as the finance chair: could someone at Public Works please fix the temperature in this room? I've had multiple complaints from colleagues and witnesses, and hopefully we will have it fixed.

Thank you all for appearing today.