Citizenship and Immigration Committee on March 5th, 2009

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Order, please.

This is the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, meeting number five, on Thursday, March 5, 2009. There are two orders of the day: committee business, a notice of motion by Mr. Dykstra; and then we will proceed to in camera proceedings pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), a study of the undocumented and temporary foreign workers.

We are ready to start. Mr. Dykstra, you have the floor.

[Rick Dykstra, Conservative, St. Catharines, ON]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

After some consideration and discussions with my colleagues who sit on the opposite side of the table from me, while I am disappointed about the fact that we had what looked like a strange coincidence with respect to a report that we're going to be dealing with shortly, I have every confidence that people who sit around this table have the confidence in each other and also understand the importance of not having a report like this breached, in terms of not keeping it within the group. I have every confidence that that did not in fact take place.

At this point, I will withdraw the motion I have put forward.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Thank you, Mr. Dykstra.

We will then proceed to the report.

Ms. Chow.

[Olivia Chow, NDP, Trinity—Spadina, ON]

I believe I also have a motion on the floor, which I will also withdraw. It has been tabled.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

You're going to withdraw that too?

[Olivia Chow, NDP, Trinity—Spadina, ON]

Yes. There is a letter from the lawyer who put out the press release that we talked about at the end of the last meeting--which Mr. Dykstra was talking about. We can circulate it; it basically says he never received any secret documents.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

From the chair's perspective, we do hope that things are kept confidential in this committee. I probably shouldn't be commenting on this, but I have some obligation to try to keep order, and it sounds like we're resolving things and we all have an understanding.

Thank you, very much, Ms. Chow.

[Olivia Chow, NDP, Trinity—Spadina, ON]

Yes. It was never leaked.

[The Chair, Conservative, David Tilson]

Of course. Thank you.

We will now go in camera.

[Proceedings continue in camera]