Finance Committee on June 9th, 2016

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

We're only thinking of Toronto and London at the moment.

[Guy Caron, NDP, Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC]

If we're thinking of FedNor, if we want to have FedNor....

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

We do. We have to have FedNor.

[Steven MacKinnon, Liberal, Gatineau, QC]

They can come here, though. They're federal public servants.

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

If they had to, yes. They are federal agents, so they could come here.

[Guy Caron, NDP, Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC]

I would still make a pitch for northern Ontario.

For Quebec, do we need to decide right now, or could I come back to you on Tuesday?

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

Suzie and her folks need to put together a costing on travel, and I think we'll also look at video conferences. You guys talk to your whips and I'll talk to mine. If you could get the Quebec names to her, then we could at least do a costing to talk about at our committee on Tuesday.

[Guy Caron, NDP, Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC]

That is it for the moment, unless we come up with an alternative.

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

Are there any other thoughts on pre-budget?

Sorry, Francesco.

[Francesco Sorbara, Liberal, Vaughan—Woodbridge, ON]

I have a quick comment or a question, Mr. Chair, on the idea that the budget has been taken up already.

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

It's not taken up, but with what is on deck, even before we get there, it is certainly taken up. I can guarantee that committees that come before the liaison committee, which I'm on, are going to find their budgets are going to be severely cut back.

[Lisa Raitt, Conservative, Milton, ON]

The electoral reform commission that is being struck, where is that being sourced out of?

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

I have no idea.

[Lisa Raitt, Conservative, Milton, ON]

Is that out of that committee as well? Is that in the list of committees?

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

No, I don't think so.

I haven't seen that one, and I've seen the list of proposals.

[Lisa Raitt, Conservative, Milton, ON]

If TPP is going through international trade, as Guy points out, will the electoral reform—

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

No. The TPP hearings came out of the regular committee budgets.

[Lisa Raitt, Conservative, Milton, ON]

That's what I mean, yes. Would those hearings for electoral reform come out of the regular committee budgets?

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

It's something I'll have to ask. I don't know.

[Lisa Raitt, Conservative, Milton, ON]

Make sure they have their own budget. That's all. If they set up a committee, make sure they have a budget, because they're travelling.

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

I think that for the special committee on assisted dying, it came out of a completely different allocation than the one for committees.

[Lisa Raitt, Conservative, Milton, ON]

That's good to know.

[The Chair, Liberal, Wayne Easter]

I think so. I'm pretty sure of that.

Is there anything else?

Thank you all.

The meeting is adjourned.