Citizenship and Immigration Committee on April 28th, 2008

[Andrew Telegdi, Liberal, Kitchener—Waterloo, ON]

No, Mr. Chairman, it was travelling with the finance committee that got defeated. This one is for our committee, not the finance committee.

Madam Chow would have us as a joint committee travelling across the country. My motion is just our committee--not a joint committee, just our committee.

[Deepak Obhrai, Conservative, Calgary East, AB]

Are you putting a new motion?

[Andrew Telegdi, Liberal, Kitchener—Waterloo, ON]

That's the motion, yes.

[Deepak Obhrai, Conservative, Calgary East, AB]

Are you putting it now?

[Andrew Telegdi, Liberal, Kitchener—Waterloo, ON]

Yes.

[Deepak Obhrai, Conservative, Calgary East, AB]

So it's a new motion.

[Ed Komarnicki, Conservative, Souris—Moose Mountain, SK]

Can he do that?

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

He can put a motion to that effect, the clerk tells me.

Mr. Telegdi has moved a motion to have the clerk or the analyst, whoever is responsible, put together an itinerary to travel on this particular issue and to report back to the committee.

Again, I just don't see how it can be done in the timeframes that we're talking about.

[Andrew Telegdi, Liberal, Kitchener—Waterloo, ON]

It doesn't have to be for the preliminary report, but--

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

So it could be at some point in the future.

[Andrew Telegdi, Liberal, Kitchener—Waterloo, ON]

Well, yes, it would be once we do our preliminary report. Then we'll go on after the preliminary is done.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

Okay. That's a point of information that she can get for us.

[Andrew Telegdi, Liberal, Kitchener—Waterloo, ON]

Yes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

Okay. Are we in the mood...?

[Jim Karygiannis, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

Mr. Chair, there are two more motions on the floor from me.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

I don't know if we'll deal with them now.

[Ed Komarnicki, Conservative, Souris—Moose Mountain, SK]

Do we have a motion on the floor or don't we?

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

No, I don't think so.

Mr. Carrier.

[Robert Carrier, Bloc, Alfred-Pellan, QC]

Mr. Chairman, I have a question concerning the study on Bill C-50 that we have agreed to undertake. I think it would be important for the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure to draw up a list of witnesses that could help us with our study. I do not think it is up to us to come up with a list.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

That's a very good point.

[Robert Carrier, Bloc, Alfred-Pellan, QC]

I think a meeting of the subcommittee should be called as soon as possible.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

Members can submit a list of witnesses if they so desire.

[Andrew Telegdi, Liberal, Kitchener—Waterloo, ON]

And we would all agree to have the minister here, of course.

[The Chair, Conservative, Norman Doyle]

Perhaps I could move on and ask the committee what we want to do now with the draft report that we have before us.

[An hon. member]

Adjourn, adjourn.