Evidence of meeting #5 for Government Operations and Estimates in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was process.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
In the second round, we have Conservative, Liberal, Conservative, and in the third round, three minutes for the New Democratic Party.
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Liberal
Yasmin Ratansi Liberal Don Valley East, ON
Where did you get the third round from, Mr. Chair? This is what we adopted.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
This is what I have been given. My understanding is that this is what we adopted.
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Liberal
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
We'll go back and check exactly the record. Our clerk is going to examine....
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Liberal
Nick Whalen Liberal St. John's East, NL
There was no third round, and it was Conservative, Liberal, Conservative, Liberal.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
Nick, I know you weren't here yesterday, but we did exactly this rotation yesterday.
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Liberal
Yasmin Ratansi Liberal Don Valley East, ON
No, we didn't. We followed this rotation, but it was not Mr. Weir. It was first Mr. Grewal.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
No, I have the lineup from yesterday, and I can assure you we followed the exact rotation we did today. I am not going to get into an argument.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
We'll go back and check the rotation that was adopted. The committee obviously has an opportunity to adopt whatever speaking rotation it wishes, so let us first check and see exactly what our records indicate, and we will deal with that tomorrow. There was certainly no intent to skip over anyone.
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Liberal
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
Very briefly, these are the two issues that I had. One, as I mentioned yesterday, is for everyone to give consideration to the meeting schedule the week of March 21. The Tuesday meeting will not be held because it is budget day. My question to you for consideration was whether we have a full meeting on Thursday, March 24. That is the day before we break for two weeks for our Easter constituency weeks. If we do not have a full meeting—and it will be up to this committee to determine that—I suggested that we have a subcommittee meeting on agenda, so we can get our work plan established, but I will leave it up to the consensus, hopefully, of this committee. Did you wish a committee meeting to be held on Thursday afternoon, prior to Good Friday, or not?
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Liberal
Yasmin Ratansi Liberal Don Valley East, ON
Do we have an agenda for the meeting? If we don't, then let's go with the subcommittee.
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Conservative
Steven Blaney Conservative Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, QC
I would defer that to the subcommittee, to see if there's a witness.
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Conservative
Steven Blaney Conservative Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, QC
We already have some extra meetings this week, so it balances.
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NDP
Erin Weir NDP Regina—Lewvan, SK
I would prefer, and would quite strongly advocate for, a full meeting on that Thursday, especially given that we're missing the meeting on Tuesday.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Tom Lukiwski
Since we don't seem to have unanimity, maybe let me check on it.
I'll make a decision on that, but first I'll find out if there would be a full two-hour agenda for the Thursday. If not, then I would suggest we go to a subcommittee to develop the work plan. I'm not one to have a meeting for a meeting's sake. I like to have a meeting with a firm agenda in front of us.
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NDP
Erin Weir NDP Regina—Lewvan, SK
I absolutely agree, although I guess I would note that the subcommittee did recommend some items that were pushed back to make room for the estimates. Certainly it would be possible to explore those topics on the Thursday.
