Evidence of meeting #149 for Finance in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was witnesses.
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Conservative
Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON
Alexandre is doing an amazing job.
The Clerk
It would read:
That the committee hold no fewer than four meetings devoted to a prestudy of the ways and means motion introduced in the House of Commons on June 10, 2024, that at least one meeting be held prior to June 25, 2024, that witnesses may be submitted by each party prior to Friday at 5:00 p.m., that this study take priority over any other study in the fall, that all evidence gained in this study be taken into consideration during the study of the capital gains legislation once referred by the House of Commons, that clause-by-clause of the capital gains bill start no later than three weeks after the bill is officially referred to the committee by the House of Commons, and that the Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister be invited to appear for one hour during this prestudy.
(Subamendment agreed to)
(Amendment as amended agreed to)
(Motion as amended agreed to)
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
It's passed by unanimous consent, as our gracious clerk here, Alexandre Roger, says.
We had a second panel here from the Department of Natural Resources. I see the officials in the back. On behalf of the committee, I'll apologize to the officials from the table. We have four minutes left. We thank you for coming.
I see MP Ste-Marie's hand up.
We want to thank them. We are not going to have time to be able to hear from our department officials from Natural Resources.
MP Ste-Marie.
Bloc
Gabriel Ste-Marie Bloc Joliette, QC
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Indeed, thank you very much for coming. We're sorry to have wasted so much of your valuable time.
As we have to hand in our witness list on Friday, I deduce that next Tuesday's session will be with the witnesses we will have submitted and not with departmental officials. I just wanted to clarify that.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
Members, we're back.
MP Ste-Marie is going to clarify this. There may be a little discussion on this with regard to witnesses.
MP Ste-Marie.
Bloc
Gabriel Ste-Marie Bloc Joliette, QC
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Given the motion we've passed, we'll have—
Bloc
Gabriel Ste-Marie Bloc Joliette, QC
Next week, we will have a session on the study of the notice of ways and means motion.
In the motion, we said we had until Friday, this week, to send in our witness list.
I want to make it clear that the session on this study next week will be with the witnesses we invite, not with departmental officials. We will invite the latter to appear when we have the text of the bill.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
Okay. Also, is that meeting the Tuesday meeting? Is that what we're doing on the Tuesday meeting?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
Yes, the standard meeting time on Tuesday.
Members are saying witnesses. Just that any witnesses.... To do that, members, just be aware that sometimes we are putting the clerk and the hard-working team here on a kind of a mission impossible. To be able to get those witnesses and everything ready for the Tuesday, that is the challenge. Alexandre does go above and beyond, but it is, yes—
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
Yes. It is a big challenge, you know, from where we are right now, to be able to do that and get the names on Friday and then try to get people here by Tuesday of next week.
MP Chambers.
Conservative
Adam Chambers Conservative Simcoe North, ON
I very much appreciate the work that goes into setting up witnesses. Perhaps what we would be able to do as parties would be to do our best efforts to ensure that witnesses who are proposed have already been contacted by us, such that those who have been submitted are aware as early as today of when the meeting would be. That might make the scheduling a little easier, if that's helpful. We would be happy to do that.