Evidence of meeting #122 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 amendments.
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11:45 a.m.
Liberal
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Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
We're doing two chunks, so it gives us a bit of a break.
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Liberal
Ruby Sahota Liberal Brampton North, ON
Generally we go until one o'clock for the regular committee time, right?
11:45 a.m.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
Do we go from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday?
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Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
May I make a suggestion here?
We might want to knock off early on some of these days if we get exhausted, but if we give ourselves the openness to just keep going by—
11:45 a.m.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
—booking rooms so we don't have to stop, that would let people get a sense of whether we have to stop because we're exhausted or to keep going because we're able to do whatever....
11:45 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
Tentatively, the average day you're proposing would be 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and then 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. or 9 p.m., or between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., when we get tired.
Mr. Bittle.
11:45 a.m.
Liberal
Chris Bittle Liberal St. Catharines, ON
How about we just make the suggestion that the chair work with the vice-chairs to come up with that?
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Conservative
11:45 a.m.
Liberal
David Graham Liberal Laurentides—Labelle, QC
My one request is that you give the schedule to all of us by the end of this week so we know what we're doing.
11:45 a.m.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
Chris, that was the intervention that got you back on my Christmas list.
11:45 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
We'll use those general guidelines, but we'll work with each party and the vice-chairs.
Roughly, it's from 9 to 11:45 in the mornings and from 3:30 p.m. to sometime between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., depending on how tired we are. We will not meet during caucus on Wednesday. We will not meet during question period under any circumstances.
Is that okay?
11:45 a.m.
Liberal
David Graham Liberal Laurentides—Labelle, QC
You have my request, if it's possible at all, to get the schedule out by the end of this week.
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Liberal
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
Yes. We'll get the clerk to send a proposal around to the vice-chairs, and then we'll get back to you when we can so that people can plan their schedule next week.
Is there is anything else?
Mr. Cullen.
11:45 a.m.
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
I have just this last thing, through you, Chair.
I know that we thank our clerks often. This is a pretty onerous piece of work that they're going through, so to the committee members, happy Thanksgiving, and to our clerks, a happy different kind of Thanksgiving. Good luck with putting all of this together for us.
Chair, I appreciate your work as well.
11:50 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
Thank you, everyone, for your co-operation. I think the committee is working well together. We look forward to the week after Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
The meeting is adjourned.