Evidence of meeting #32 for Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was students.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Ed Komarnicki
We'll certainly be sure to take you up on that.
We have a question from Ms. Hughes.
We'll just wait for a couple of minutes.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Ed Komarnicki
Could our members make their way back to the table in order for us to conclude? I certainly appreciate the visiting that is going on, but we have a short question we want to deal with and then we can adjourn.
This is a subject that has created quite a lot of interest, I can see, and that's good.
Ms. Hughes, I understand you had one question. Perhaps you wanted to put it to the parliamentary secretary, if we could have the attention of the parliamentary secretary.
NDP
Carol Hughes NDP Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, ON
Yes, I only have one very quick question. What is the possibility and when can we anticipate having the ministers come before committee? Could we get them on separate days?
Kellie Leitch ConservativeParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development and to the Minister of Labour
Are we in camera or not?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Ed Komarnicki
We're not in camera. I don't propose to go in camera. It's a question posed to the parliamentary secretary, so maybe just a response in terms of having a look at—
Conservative
Kellie Leitch Conservative Simcoe—Grey, ON
I've asked the minister's office for a response. I'm still waiting on it. As you may have noticed, Minister Finley has not been in the House for the last two weeks, so we're just waiting on a response from the minister's office. I have made the request.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Ed Komarnicki
When you have that information, maybe you can share that with us.
NDP
Conservative
Kellie Leitch Conservative Simcoe—Grey, ON
Yes, we've asked both. They would come, probably, together in tandem representing the department together.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Ed Komarnicki
All right.
Is everybody okay with that? There is time for that to happen and we just want to be sure it does happen.
NDP
Carol Hughes NDP Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, ON
Just to reiterate, the preference would be to try to get them on different days, so that we can have more time with them.
Conservative
Kellie Leitch Conservative Simcoe—Grey, ON
I think the way the department would probably approach it is, depending upon the timeframe, that one would come for one half, and one would come for the other half.
To be quite frank, I don't think we'll end up spending two hours with the Minister of Labour.
Liberal
Rodger Cuzner Liberal Cape Breton—Canso, NS
We'd like to see them separately as well. I'm saying “we”.
Liberal
Rodger Cuzner Liberal Cape Breton—Canso, NS
Yes.
We'd like to see them separately. We think there's an opportunity to have a televised hearing, so if we could do that, if we could accommodate a televised hearing with the ministers, that would be good.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Ed Komarnicki
Your request is noted. I know that we have had.... In my recollection, we've generally had both together for these meetings, but we'll see what the response brings and we'll go from there.
With that, we'll adjourn.