Government Operations Committee on March 20th, 2018

[Marie Lemay]

Well, there's more engagement. There's more consultation. We follow all the different consultation processes. The Senate also is more active. There are a lot of reasons why the business has grown.

[Kelly McCauley, Conservative, Edmonton West, AB]

There's a lot more travel?

[Marie Lemay]

Well, for example, we follow the commission on murdered and missing indigenous women. So for any of these commissions that are set up or engagement processes—

[Kelly McCauley, Conservative, Edmonton West, AB]

How much do you think is because of the extra travel and the committee travel and the missing and murdered women?

[Marie Lemay]

Well, this is about interpretation and closed captioning, so do you mean the increase in volume is what specifically...? That, we'd have to go back to.

[Marty Muldoon]

In addition, there are 30 extra MPs to support.

[Marie Lemay]

That's true.

[Kelly McCauley, Conservative, Edmonton West, AB]

Okay. Thanks very much.

Before we finish, I just want to read in a motion. I hope I can get unanimous consent for this.

[The Vice-Chair, Liberal, Yasmin Ratansi]

But I can suspend it.

[Kelly McCauley, Conservative, Edmonton West, AB]

Yes. I'll be brief.

[The Vice-Chair, Liberal, Yasmin Ratansi]

I can tell the witnesses to leave, then?

[Kelly McCauley, Conservative, Edmonton West, AB]

They can stay for this, because it does concern them.

[The Vice-Chair, Liberal, Yasmin Ratansi]

Okay.

[Kelly McCauley, Conservative, Edmonton West, AB]

In light of the news in the media that's come up recently with regard to our friends down in the States with the issue with Google and the data mining, I want to put through a motion again.

I hope I can get unanimous consent for this motion. Given the current investigation facing Facebook and its distribution of advertising analytics to third parties in the U.S.:

That the committee hold a briefing with the Privacy Commissioner to discuss Government of Canada advertising policy with Facebook and the potential impacts on data collection and dissemination with third parties at the expense of the Canadian taxpayer, and that meeting be held no later than Thursday, May 10, 2018.

I'm also open to maybe include Facebook to appear before then as well.

[The Vice-Chair, Liberal, Yasmin Ratansi]

For the committee's purposes, we haven't been given notice, but if the committee would like to bypass the process and give consent we could entertain the motion. What is the committee's will?

Mr. Drouin.

[Francis Drouin, Liberal, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON]

Madam Chair, we would take this motion as a notice, and we could discuss that later.

[An hon. member]

Or the subcommittee.

[The Vice-Chair, Liberal, Yasmin Ratansi]

Fair enough.

[Francis Drouin, Liberal, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON]

Or the subcommittee could discuss it.

[The Vice-Chair, Liberal, Yasmin Ratansi]

Well, we could invite Mr. McCauley to put the motion on notice today, and then we could—

[Kelly McCauley, Conservative, Edmonton West, AB]

You're denying unanimous consent, then, Mr. Drouin?

[Kyle Peterson, Liberal, Newmarket—Aurora, ON]

He wants to see the French version. Do you have it in French?

[The Vice-Chair, Liberal, Yasmin Ratansi]

Can we get it translated—

[Francis Drouin, Liberal, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON]

I take it as an—

[Kelly McCauley, Conservative, Edmonton West, AB]

[Inaudible—Editor] the translation.