Evidence of meeting #107 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was travel.
A recording is available from Parliament.
The Clerk
No, not correct you. It's just to state that the Olds College stop would be on a college campus, so that would check one of the boxes.
Liberal
Scott Simms Liberal Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, NL
I see.
Yes, because I was just thinking that the problem in going to a campus in Halifax is that, for some reason—I know we're public but I always poke fun at them—the fact is that Halifax has a wonderful airport, but why they put it in Cape Breton, I don't know. Anyway, no offence there, but we could probably stay closer. That would be a bit of—
Conservative
Blake Richards Conservative Banff—Airdrie, AB
An interesting thing in Olds, with the college—you mentioned the campus there—is that probably more so than most colleges it draws from pretty much all over western Canada. These kids would be further from home maybe than they would be in a lot of cases. That probably is a good thing. If there are challenges, they would be more likely to have them there.
Liberal
Scott Simms Liberal Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, NL
Boy, this Olds community is covering off everything, isn't it? I'm going to move there by the time this is done.
Liberal
Conservative
Blake Richards Conservative Banff—Airdrie, AB
Yes, you don't want to fly into there—for the size of what we would have to fly in, no.
Liberal
David Graham Liberal Laurentides—Labelle, QC
We could fly in a smaller prop plane. I wonder if that would be a lot cheaper, because if you want to go in a jet, which seems—
Conservative
Blake Richards Conservative Banff—Airdrie, AB
I'm not sure anything besides...it would be a very small aircraft.
Conservative
Blake Richards Conservative Banff—Airdrie, AB
Honestly, it would be quicker to drive than fly, anyway.
Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
Okay, so what cities, what areas, locations have we confirmed, Alberta?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
One point, Scott, I think that the choice of Halifax was because of commercial flights. If we were to do the charter, I don't think it really matters where we'd go in the east.
Go ahead.
Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
I was just going to ask whether we could lock down the locations. We have Olds school. We have Tsawwassen, which is where we'd start. Then we'd go to Olds school and Toronto.
Is it Olds school?
Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
Oh, sorry about my ignorance. I think it will be lovely to go, and I'll never forget it after that.
Conservative
Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB
I did go to the old school, but it wasn't that one.
Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
You are old school.
It's Toronto after that and then Montreal. It's too bad Nathan Cullen isn't here because this really was his baby, and this is what he wanted to do. He wants to go on the road. We're making these decisions on his behalf, I guess.
NDP
Liberal
Conservative
Blake Richards Conservative Banff—Airdrie, AB
We've put more detail to it. I know for a fact that Nathan.... I don't want to speak for him, but I did talk to him about whether he would be okay with flipping the west to the east, and he said that was fine by him. He wasn't concerned. That's really the only change over what was discussed, and he did indicate to me that he was fine with that, if that helps.
