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.
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
With the discussion on the travel, the clerk thinks it is better to do this in camera. Is it okay if we go in camera to discuss—
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
Yes. It's the travel for next week.
Okay. We have to continue in public, unless someone moves a motion that we go in camera.
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Liberal
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Liberal
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Liberal
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Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
What does after QP mean? At 3:30? Give me a time.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
Welcome back to meeting 107 of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
Before we get into the business at hand, I just want to mention that the researcher thinks he can have the report that we did this morning, which was in confidence, so I won't say anything about it, back by tomorrow afternoon. If that's the case, I'll set aside 10 minutes. There wasn't any discussion on it, and if there are no changes, I'll set aside 10 minutes on Thursday just to approve that.
We're doing committee business, and we're talking about the potential of travel.
The floor is open.
Ruby.
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Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
I was hoping that we would get started with the travel so that we can assist the clerk in the plans that need to be made. Mr. Cullen is very interested in travelling, and obviously, we see the benefit in the testimony that we would receive there. I wasn't here yesterday, but I believe that something was negotiated to go from the east coast to the west coast, hitting the cities of Halifax, Montreal....
Help me out, people.
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Liberal
Filomena Tassi Liberal Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas, ON
Maybe Winnipeg, and then Vancouver, and something else.
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Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
Winnipeg and Vancouver.
We've had some discussions in which we were thinking we could hit some rural areas or city areas, but I was wondering if there were specific questions that maybe the clerk could address to the chair, and then we could give our feedback on how we would like to see it happening.
I think, from what Mr. Cullen said before, he wants to hear from the public and also have some expert witness testimony, so we're hoping that we would have expert witnesses up front, and if there was an opportunity to provide it in a given city, we would hear from the public immediately following the expert witnesses. If anyone wanted to come forward, we'd hear from them in a way that would be similar somehow to the structure that we had for the electoral reform committee.
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Conservative
Blake Richards Conservative Banff—Airdrie, AB
Mr. Chair, I just want to clarify that the government now is interested in discussing the travel separately, because that was something they didn't want to do before, and I think it was a good idea, and I hope that they've changed their minds.
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Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
It's contingent upon a lot of other factors, but I thought we would just get the ball rolling with discussing it.
Of course, I'll bring forward everything else that we want to see. If we are going to go on the road, we have to have some reassurance that we're going to get through this bill clause by clause, so I'd like to move with that proposal for that.
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Conservative
Blake Richards Conservative Banff—Airdrie, AB
So the government doesn't intend to move the motion that was handed out last night?
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Liberal
