Finance Committee on March 21st, 2022

Evidence of meeting #32 for Finance in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was inflation.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Inflation in the Current Canadian Economy

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Vivek Dehejia Associate Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Carleton University, As an Individual

Andy Yan Director, City Program, Simon Fraser University, As an Individual

Edith Cyr General Manager, Bâtir son quartier

William Robson Chief Executive Officer, C.D. Howe Institute

Ray Sullivan Executive Director, Ottawa Community Land Trust

Leilani Farha Global Director, The Shift

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Alexandre Roger

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Conservative

Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC

I just want to know if those budgets are balanced or not.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca

These are balanced—

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Conservative

Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC

If they're not, I suggest that they should be.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca

The funds are available. They are balanced. They are very prudent, as we do great work here.

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Conservative

Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC

Good.

I move the approval.

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Conservative

Dan Albas Conservative Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, BC

Mr. Chair—

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca

Yes, MP Albas.

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Conservative

Dan Albas Conservative Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, BC

Mr. Chair, just briefly, though, could you have the clerk confirm that these budgets have reasonable expenditures given the work we're going to be doing—nothing glamorous or different?

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca

Okay, go ahead, Clerk.

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The Clerk of the Committee Mr. Alexandre Roger

The budgets are for phone lines, headsets and the food that's in the back, and those amounts are the same for every committee, so it's nothing different.

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Conservative

Dan Albas Conservative Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola, BC

Thank you.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca

Thank you, MP Albas.

It looks like we are good.

Shall we adjourn?

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Some hon. members

Agreed.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca

Okay, we're adjourned.