Evidence of meeting #23 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was back.
A recording is available from Parliament.
12:10 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota
Yes, the technical team that's in the room today has to be elsewhere shortly, so we have a minute, and I don't see us being able to discuss this in a minute.
Go ahead, Mr. Brassard.
12:15 p.m.
Conservative
John Brassard Conservative Barrie—Innisfil, ON
Madam Chair, the longer we go, the more pressure we put on ourselves as we get close to that June 23 deadline, so I just want to make everybody aware. The last thing I want is another eight-hour marathon session to try to complete a report. If we are going to discuss this on Tuesday, let's make it at the beginning of the meeting, because the deadline is looming again. I think it would be prudent on our part to do that.
12:15 p.m.
The Clerk
May I just remind the committee that we could do that at the beginning of the meeting? In the meantime, we will also send out the draft committee report, or the portion available, so that the committee can move to the draft committee report after they conduct their committee business at the beginning of the meeting on Tuesday. It will be a three-hour meeting, so there would be additional time left for that as well.
12:15 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota
Yes. The report will be sent to all of the members at some point on Monday.
Go ahead, Mr. Turnbull.
12:15 p.m.
Liberal
Ryan Turnbull Liberal Whitby, ON
Just to clarify, I think you said this before, but I just want to be sure. Without agreement on an extension, our deadline reverts to June 23. Is that right?
12:15 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota
That is my understanding, unless we report otherwise back to the House.
12:15 p.m.
Liberal
Ryan Turnbull Liberal Whitby, ON
The likelihood of that eight-hour session or 10-hour session—who knows how long it might take?—gets greater the less agreement we have on an extension, right?
12:15 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota
I guess the clerk is trying to also say that we will have the draft report before us on Monday. Once committee business is over, we would be carrying on into looking at that draft report. That's what those next two meetings are set for: consideration of the draft report. As we have it right now, the motion that we're working under requires us to report back for June 23.
12:15 p.m.
Liberal
12:15 p.m.
Liberal
Omar Alghabra Liberal Mississauga Centre, ON
I'll make this quick, but I want to take a moment to thank Ms. Normandin for her flexibility during this committee. As somebody who's working on my French, I know how important it is to have interpretation, but she showed class and tolerance, and I want to thank her for being patient.
12:15 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota
Absolutely. I echo that as well. I felt that it was a very challenging moment. We shouldn't have had to do that, so we'll try to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Thank you for that, though.
We will adjourn today's meeting and reconvene on Tuesday, with committee business at the start of the meeting. Thank you.
The meeting is adjourned.