No, that's not the committee's wish.
Evidence of meeting #1 for Finance in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #1 for Finance in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
A recording is available from Parliament.
12:40 p.m.
Conservative
12:40 p.m.
Liberal
Peter Fragiskatos Liberal London North Centre, ON
On a point of order, Mr. Chair, that would make me comfortable. I think that would bring assurance to the issue.
12:40 p.m.
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
I note that Mr. Fragiskatos's comfort is not part of the committee's mandate.
12:40 p.m.
Liberal
Peter Fragiskatos Liberal London North Centre, ON
Point of order, Mr. Chair.
It's great to see Mr. Poilievre back, but proper procedure is part of the committee's mandate. We need assurances on whether or not the documents are on the website.
12:40 p.m.
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
This is publicly available information. This is not proper procedure.
12:40 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
Gentlemen, we're going to try not to get into an argument here over the virtual lines at the moment.
We will suspend—
12:40 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
—and would the clerk check if the documents and evidence are still on our public website and make the link available, please.
We are suspended for five minutes. We will be back at exactly 13 minutes to one, your time.
12:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
If we could gavel ourselves back in without a gavel, we're away. I see members are starting to pop up.
12:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
Wait until members come on, Mr. Poilievre.
I'll make one point first. The clerk of the committee sent an email. You should have it in your system. It says:
Members of the committee:
Please find below, the link to the documents from the Committee Government Spending, WE and the Canada Student Service Grant that are available on the Committee website, from the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session:
The link is below that.
Mr. Poilievre, please go ahead with your point of order, and then we'll go to the question.
12:45 p.m.
Conservative
Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON
Thank you.
There is no implied consent to, at any point, move to adjournment. I just want to make sure that's clear. A vote would have to be held before an adjournment were to happen.
Thank you very much.
12:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
That is a point of information. I recognize that, thank you.
On a point of order, go ahead, Mr. Fraser.
12:45 p.m.
Liberal
Sean Fraser Liberal Central Nova, NS
Sorry, there is one thing I'm still not clear on. I received the email, and it looks like it has links to the various meetings we've had. I haven't seen, on a quick scan through the links in the half a minute or so I've had to look at it, whether my concern has really been addressed around formal receipt by this committee of the documents that the government had disclosed, in response to the committee member.
I'm curious if you or the clerk can confirm whether the total disclosure was formally made, because that's unclear to me. I'm not trying to be tricky. I don't enjoy the idea of voting on documents that I don't know we have. If you could still clear that up for me, I'm still searching for that information.
12:45 p.m.
Conservative
12:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
Madam Clerk, can you respond to that? Are the documents there on that link?
12:50 p.m.
The Clerk
The documents that are available on the House of Commons committee website for the finance committee are all the evidence heard from the 43rd Parliament, 1st session and also the documents that were tabled with the committee.
October 15th, 2020 / 12:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
Through that link, the documents asked for by the committee that the law clerk redacted are available on that site. Is that correct, Madam Clerk?
12:50 p.m.
The Clerk
The redacted documents are on the website.
12:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
Okay. Immediately prior to prorogation, I don't think they had all been uploaded. They are all there now, I assume.