Finance Committee on April 17th, 2020

Evidence of meeting #20 for Finance in the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was communities.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Government’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Cécile Arbaud Executive Director, Dans la rue

Véronique Laflamme Spokesperson, Front d'action populaire en réaménagement urbain

Shayne Williams Chief Executive Officer, Lookout Housing and Health Society

Paul Taylor President and Chief Executive Officer, Head Office, Mortgage Professionals Canada

Elaine Taylor Chair of the Board of Directors, Head Office, Mortgage Professionals Canada

Jim Bell Chief Executive Officer, Siloam Mission

Dan Clement President and Chief Executive Officer, United Way Centraide Canada

Maureen Fair Executive Director, West Neighbourhood House

Mary Robinson President, Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Barry Friesen General Manager, Cleanfarms

Derek Nighbor President and Chief Executive Officer, Forest Products Association of Canada

Lynn Napier Mayor of Fort Smith, Northwest Territories Association of Communities

Martin Caron First Vice-President, Union des producteurs agricoles

Jean-Maurice Matte Mayor, Ville de Senneterre

Scott Ross Assistant Executive Director, Canadian Federation of Agriculture

6:05 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter

Okay.

Then we'll have the municipalities and provinces, because we are hearing from—

6:10 p.m.

Conservative

Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON

What day would you propose to have municipalities and provinces?

6:10 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter

It doesn't matter, Thursday or Friday.

6:10 p.m.

Conservative

Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON

Are we going to have time for owner-operators then?

6:10 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter

These are the four I'm thinking about: workers, students and unemployed; hospitality industry; owner-operators; and municipalities and provinces. We'll have to leave the catch-up until the following week.

6:10 p.m.

Conservative

Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON

Is there a way that we could include at least one representative from the hospitality sector, beyond restaurants?

6:10 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter

I did say that.

6:10 p.m.

Conservative

Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON

Okay, so it wouldn't be just restaurants.

6:10 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter

We'll figure out the order, but it's the hospitality industry; municipalities and provinces; workers, students and the unemployed; and owner-operators, which is fairly broad.

Are we okay on that?

6:10 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

6:10 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter

Then the next week we'll have to put a session in for those who are falling through the cracks. I know that the food processors, big and small, are really starting to worry. You have the Cargill plant in Alberta. You have a hog plant in Quebec that was shut down. You have Tyson, which slaughters 10,000 hogs a day in the United States, shut down. That's affecting our ability to ship as well. The next week we'll bring in the ones that fall through the cracks.

I'll get that out to people. Keep in mind that it's the hospitality industry; owner-operators; municipalities, provinces and territories; and workers, students and the unemployed. That's the list. We need your prioritized list on each of those by Sunday night at six o'clock.

With that, thank you to all. Have a wonderful weekend. It's been good seeing you the last couple of days.

The meeting is adjourned.