No idea.
Evidence of meeting #39 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was block.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #39 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was block.
A recording is available from Parliament.
12:45 p.m.
NDP
Thomas Mulcair NDP Outremont, QC
Hours and hours later, you still have no clue what you're looking at.
12:45 p.m.
Vice-President, Public Affairs, GCI Group, As an Individual
The banter that you see back and forth should indicate that we were just chatting. It was back and forth. I had no idea. We went on with never a mention of anything that was in the report or anything like it.
12:45 p.m.
NDP
Thomas Mulcair NDP Outremont, QC
It's a reaction to the report, Ms. Hamilton. Get real. That's what you're talking about. You're reacting to it. You said he had no shortcomings, with three exclamation marks. He sent it back to you, and you said “I heart you.” This was what you needed. It's a peek. It's a draft report. It says confidential and it's privileged, and you still haven't seen a thing.
12:45 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Thank you.
We've finished our two rounds and we will excuse our witnesses.
Thank you very much for coming today and sharing your thoughts with us. We will leave the option open, as Ms. Ratansi said after the last one, to recall you if we have further questions for you.
We thank you for coming today and sharing your time with us. Thanks.
We'll suspend for just a couple of minutes while the witnesses leave.
Thank you.
12:50 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
We'll come back into session, please.
Monsieur Proulx, you've given us notice of a production of papers motion.
12:50 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
At this moment, I need a little bit more time with my clerk to find out whether it's in order or not. If it's all right with you, we can take this under advisement. Allow me the time to speak with the clerk, and we'll deal with it first thing Thursday under committee business at the start of the meeting. I'm not certain we're going to be able to deal with much more of it before then anyway.
12:50 p.m.
Liberal
Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC
Mr. Chair, these five different motions are identical except for the names of the lobbyists or the names of the firms that employ these lobbyists.
12:50 p.m.
Liberal
Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC
Essentially what we're saying, sir, is that we would like these offices and these lobbyists to supply the committee with all correspondence, whether letter, fax, or e-mail, from January 2010 until today, and we are asking that these documents be delivered to the committee within five days. If we wait until Thursday.... I would rather we take two or three minutes. You can look at these motions with the clerk, if you want, and decide there and then what we can do with them, but time is of the essence in this particular file, Mr. Chair.
12:50 p.m.
Conservative
12:50 p.m.
Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
Looking at what Marcel is asking for here, I don't see any difficulty. All he's asking for is communications between the lobbyists--the five individuals who were before us today--and Ms. Block's office, which to me seems reasonable. I don't have any problem with that.
12:50 p.m.
Conservative
12:50 p.m.
Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
12:50 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Monsieur Mulcair, if you're all right with it, I'll go along with the initial thoughts of the clerk that it is in order. Let's put it in motion, then, to use a pun.
(Motion agreed to) [See Minutes of Proceedings]
Anything else for the good of the committee today?
Go ahead, Monsieur Proulx.
12:50 p.m.
Liberal
Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I appreciate your cooperation. I appreciate everybody else's cooperation on this committee. Let's get to the bottom of this.
Thank you.
12:50 p.m.
Conservative
