Foreign Affairs Committee on May 25th, 2009

[A voice]

One hundred bucks a month.

[Lawrence Cannon, Conservative, Pontiac, QC]

That's right, yes.

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

I'm glad you know that now.

[Lawrence Cannon, Conservative, Pontiac, QC]

Well, thank you, Mr. Dewar.

[The Chair, Conservative, Kevin Sorenson]

Well, apparently you didn't.

[Lawrence Cannon, Conservative, Pontiac, QC]

No, Mr. Dewar, don't play games with me.

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

I'm not playing the game, Mr. Minister.

[Lawrence Cannon, Conservative, Pontiac, QC]

If you're going to start playing games with me, Mr. Dewar, and trying to belittle me and calling me a racist, like you did, that is not going to go anywhere.

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

I never called you a racist. I did not.

[Lawrence Cannon, Conservative, Pontiac, QC]

Yes, you did, sir, and you should apologize for that.

[The Chair, Conservative, Kevin Sorenson]

Order. Order.

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

Make all the accusations you want—

[The Chair, Conservative, Kevin Sorenson]

Mr. Dewar, order, please.

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

Absolutely. I didn't flame out here.

[The Chair, Conservative, Kevin Sorenson]

Mr. Minister, on the previous question, when you were interrupted you wanted time to finish that. Maybe you are finished now.

[Lawrence Cannon, Conservative, Pontiac, QC]

No, I'm finished. But this has to be a dialogue, Chair, and if I'm going to be interrupted at every instance, I cannot supply and give a proper answer. Now, whether or not he disputes the length of my answer, or whether or not he is in agreement with my answer, that's up to my colleague, but I am giving our position.

I have said that we have not accepted an emergency passport. That is well documented. I explained to him why we did not accept that. He asked me whether or not I am aware that we are giving Mr. Abdelrazik the per diem, whether or not I'm aware the he's in our embassy in Khartoum. Of course I am aware of that. He is not going to get anywhere by belittling me and by calling me a racist like he did a couple of weeks ago.

[The Chair, Conservative, Kevin Sorenson]

Thank you very much.

That concludes—

[Paul Dewar, NDP, Ottawa Centre, ON]

Mr. Chair, I implore the Minister to at least to give us—

[The Chair, Conservative, Kevin Sorenson]

That's all, Mr. Dewar.

The meeting is adjourned.