Evidence of meeting #77 for Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Bloc
Yves Lessard Bloc Chambly—Borduas, QC
Mr. Chairman, do you know if we are going to receive, as we requested, last year's and this year's lists for each riding?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
I don't know what's going to be provided. My understanding of the request, as to what they can accommodate, is that it will be available to the clerk tomorrow, and then the clerk will send that information out to each of us.
I am not suggesting we add two additional meetings. I just want to clarify again, and I appreciate Mr. Silva's concern, that my concern was, as Mr. Lessard had said, if we're going to meet from 10 until 1, we could meet the first hour with the department officials and then spend the next two hours dealing with that issue. That would free us up on Thursday evening. I don't know whether we can get out of here early on Thursday. I never make any assumptions there, but it would deal with the information we have before us.
Employability, as I said, we are not going to get done in the next week or two.
We're going to need to move forward. I do have a couple of other people on the list.
Mr. Lake, and then Ms. Yelich.
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Conservative
Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB
I just want to get some clarification of what you were talking about. What times would we meet on Tuesday and Thursday?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
The suggestion was from 10 until noon on Tuesday and 10 until 1 on Thursday.
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Conservative
Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB
The meetings in the afternoon, okay.
And why are we doing that, as opposed to just meeting at our normal time? It's just to clarify.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
I would not like to lose any time on the employability issue, so it gives us an hour.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB
But why wouldn't we just meet on Tuesday, at our normal time, for another two hours?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
We've got a subcommittee meeting that we have to deal with as well. I was hoping we could do that on Tuesday afternoon and then bring forward any recommendations to Thursday's meeting.
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Conservative
Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB
Okay.
In regard to Mr. Silva's comment, I can relate to that. Many of us are on two committees as well. I think having a discussion, at least, to say if seven of us all have meetings at that time, it doesn't make much sense for us to—
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
Sure, and that's a great point, Mr. Lake.
Do we want to leave Tuesday's meeting as is and then just move Thursday's meeting?
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
That would be helpful to Mr. Silva, so I'll make the suggestion, then, that we look at leaving Tuesday's meeting the same, which means the subcommittee will probably need to meet in the morning, which is fine. And if it's okay with the committee, on Thursday we could move the meeting from 10 until 1.
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Liberal
Michael Savage Liberal Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS
I just wonder, where there's a conflict with other committees that would usually start at 11, could we go from 9 to 11, as opposed to...?
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Liberal
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
Yes, that would give people a chance to sub in and out.
Thank you.
What I'm suggesting is Tuesday's meeting will remain the same and Thursday's meeting would be 9 until 12.
