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.
Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
Okay. We have Montreal. Then we're headed into Atlantic Canada, and we'll land in Halifax. Is that what was discussed yesterday?
Liberal
Scott Simms Liberal Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, NL
That was what we came to yesterday, Halifax.
Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
Our plan would be to do commercial flights for Halifax.
We should probably have a deadline for witnesses on the road whom we'd like to invite. I'm sure there's some guidance that could be provided by the clerk, but we should all be responsible for figuring out who we'd like to hear from on the road.
Thank you, Mr. Cullen, for joining us. We were just sorting out the travel plans that you so anxiously wanted to be in on.
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
Randall wants to travel. I don't know why he's leaving the table.
Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
No problem. We believe you and Blake had a conversation about the possibility of flipping the travel. That's what we're talking about right now.
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
I know all about Blake. We'll reverse course. I'm open to whatever works for committee members.
Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
We're going back to his hometown, Olds. We'll start in B.C., then go to Alberta, Ontario, Montreal, and Halifax. We'll end there. Commercial flights are what our clerks have looked into as being the more economical choice.
Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
Olds, yes, in Alberta. That will be the rural community, and in B.C. we're doing an indigenous community.
NDP
Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
We're doing one location per stop and then trying to have—and you can weigh in on this now—something similar to what we did on electoral reform. We'll have expert witnesses come before us and have a panel of whoever is going to present in the more formal presentation. Then, immediately following that, without much gap or interruption, for whoever is there and would like to—
Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
—get a couple of minutes in, we'd have them weigh in. That would concentrate the meeting to three or four hours, and then we can move on to our next location.
NDP
Liberal
