Procedure and House Affairs Committee on May 24th, 2018

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

If not, it could be at his earliest availability or something like that.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Yes.

Okay?

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

Okay. I understand we're out of time, so we'll probably need to continue this conversation, but obviously the other thing that still remains is dealing with the motion that I'd put forward. That is a very time-sensitive matter, with June 7 being our deadline, and we'd still have to hear from the minister as well.

Could we begin that second hour on Tuesday by discussing my motion so that we could make a decision about that?

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

The second hour on Tuesday is blank, so we could.

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

Then we can carry on with this discussion once we've dealt with that.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We can continue on the schedule for this study.

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

By then we would have some preliminary witness lists and things like that, right?

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Mr. Cullen.

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

We've agreed to process in terms of submitting witness lists.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Yes. Remind me what dates we agreed to.

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

We had talked about it. We have the initial lists already confirmed, it seems. Tuesday would be the submission for the more exhaustive list.

[Blake Richards, Conservative, Banff—Airdrie, AB]

Preliminary.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

The preliminary exhaustive list.

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

Yes, the preliminarily exhausting list—

[Voices]

Oh, oh!

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

—and then it remains technically open until Friday.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Until noon Friday.

Are people in agreement with that?

The biggest part of the list will be in by Tuesday, and if there are any straggler things you want to add, you have until noon Friday.

Mr. Bittle.

[Chris Bittle, Liberal, St. Catharines, ON]

One big logistical element is that if travel is going to be on the table, I believe the liaison committee meets on Tuesday, so I don't think that's a discussion that can wait until Tuesday afternoon.

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

I'm not sure we need 120 minutes with department officials. Could I suggest we do 30 minutes on that on Monday?

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

You're saying 30 minutes with officials?

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

No, 30 minutes to discuss travel.

Essentially, we'd do an hour with the minister, an hour and a half with PCO officials, and 30 minutes on what we'll call future committee business, which is essentially talking about travel and the rest of the study schedule.

It would be good to get a sense from the government, either publicly or privately, as to what deadline you're working toward on clause-by-clause and what you're hoping for on getting the bill back to the House, because I still don't have that sense.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

You had proposed clause-by-clause by roughly the 13th?

[Ruby Sahota, Liberal, Brampton North, ON]

[Inaudible—Editor] is the deadline.

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

Say that again? We have so many elements that have been put on the table now.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

The travel week was until June 8, so that would give us two days for all the witnesses.