Nine days.
Evidence of meeting #30 for Finance in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was poverty.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #30 for Finance in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was poverty.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
It depends on if you determine the west as Manitoba, Saskatchewan.... Manitoba borders Ontario.
Conservative
Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB
I need some clarification. Are you suggesting that in Quebec City and Toronto we're only spending two days, one day each?
Conservative
Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB
These locations are one day in each of the cities that are named. We are spending one day in each city that is named on the list.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
Yes. One day each, and some of them will be longer days than others. There's no question about that.
In any event, we have a motion on the floor. I know you want to discuss it now.
Did you want in, Mr. Caron?
NDP
Guy Caron NDP Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques, QC
I would just like to say that I am not opposed to Mr. Liepert's proposal. The question is really what the additional costs would be so we can see whether it fits within our objectives.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
Coming back to the motion that was moved, it was for travel to and prebudget consultations in Quebec and Toronto, of $43,207.80.
(Motion agreed to)
The next budget would be for travelling to Fredericton, Charlottetown, Halifax, in the amount of $51,650.40. It is moved by Mr. MacKinnon.
(Motion agreed to)
The third allocation is for travelling to Kelowna, Edmonton, Regina, and Winnipeg, in the amount of $87,288. It is moved by Mr. Sorbara.
(Motion agreed to)
We'll know later today on that allocation so that the committee can start planning.
I assume—one should never make assumptions—that what we will do at the beginning of the hearings is have finance officials and others before the committee to give us a background on the financial situation in the country, etc., before we start our travel. Is that basically the way we'll proceed? We do have to figure out how we will handle the regional development agencies as well.
Go ahead, Ron.
Conservative
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
There will be some before. If we have to hold others, we would have them here following that.
We're going to have to hold a video conference in the north at some point in time.
Conservative
Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB
From a scheduling standpoint, can I get an idea of what you're talking about, because there is a three-week period that we sit starting on September 19 and going until the Thanksgiving weekend. We're off for a week at Thanksgiving, and then we're back here for a period of time.
Are you suggesting that the travel would be on either side of the week of Thanksgiving?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
Yes. I would think the travel would be mostly in October.
Getting organized in terms of background information, etc., would be in September. Then the Library of Parliament is going to need pretty well the month of November to get the document together that we can work on it.
On this point, or going back to—
Liberal
Liberal
The Clerk of the Committee Ms. Suzie Cadieux
The audio is on the Internet, and the video is on the Internet, and CPAC.
Liberal
Robert-Falcon Ouellette Liberal Winnipeg Centre, MB
Does that mean we're going to be getting on television or not?
