Evidence of meeting #35 for Finance in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was pandemic.
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Liberal
The Clerk
Yes.
The way it works is that during a one-and-a-half-hour panel we have six witnesses—two Liberals, two Conservatives, one Bloc and one NDP. That means that in a three-hour panel, we have four witnesses for the Conservatives, and they're per organization, not per person.
We had the Fraser Institute, which is one, but you still have three, so we can have the CMHC, which is one, and then Generation Squeeze, which is the third, and Watershed Partners, which is the fourth. We are able to accommodate the four witnesses from the Conservative Party, no matter how many people they send per organization.
Does that make sense?
Conservative
Pat Kelly Conservative Calgary Rocky Ridge, AB
Right.
My motion really envisioned having two dedicated panels to these witnesses. I am inclined to allow this to go to a vote, and if it's the will of the committee to support this motion, then I'd like to go ahead with that.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
It would have to be rewritten a little, given the three hours, I think.
Could we do it this way, Pat? I think we have a steering committee meeting scheduled for Monday night. Could we try to sort this out at that time? It's immaterial to me. We can vote on it now.
Conservative
Pat Kelly Conservative Calgary Rocky Ridge, AB
We're left with the problem of this Thursday and not being able to truly accommodate a three-hour meeting anyway on Thursday.
Yes, I can hold the motion back and bring it to our steering committee. If we can get some of the witnesses, if some of them are standing by and potentially would be part of a panel on Thursday, I don't really want to delay hearing these witnesses. I'd like to get these witnesses to committee one way or another.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
Okay, I'm a little confused now.
If any of these witnesses have been invited on Thursday, that invitation still stands, I think.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
If there is room to bring them in, or if certain witnesses have declined, we can handle six per panel.
Let's try that. We'll find out what we're left with, and we will deal with it at the steering committee on Monday. You can pull the motion up again, and we'll have a vote on it. Are you okay with that?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Wayne Easter
All right.
Thank you, folks. We will adjourn the meeting, and we shall see everyone on Thursday.
The meeting is adjourned.