Evidence of meeting #5 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was minutes.
A recording is available from Parliament.
6:10 p.m.
Conservative
Raquel Dancho Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul, MB
I want Ms. Chan's. She didn't quite get the chance to finish her story. I think it's pretty important for the study and for the members to know.
6:10 p.m.
The Clerk
Yes, the committee can take receipt of it as a brief, or if the committee wishes we can have it appended to the blues directly.
6:10 p.m.
Conservative
Raquel Dancho Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul, MB
Ms. Chan, you have that option. If you'd like to, we would encourage you to do that, please.
6:10 p.m.
NDP
Jenny Kwan NDP Vancouver East, BC
Madam Chair, I have a point of order as well.
For this particular meeting, we had a lot of technical difficulty with people's sound is not coming through very clearly. I'm not sure what the problem is, but there are bits of sentences where we can't really hear what they're saying, although I think we can sort of string the ideas together.
For the purpose of Hansard, I think it would be very difficult to string that together. They're going to have to blank it out. I'm just wondering if, when we have the Hansard blues available, we can send the blues to the witnesses so they can review what they were trying to put on the record. Then they can correct the information and fill in the bits that did not get recorded, so that we actually have an accurate representation of what we're trying to achieve here.
6:15 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Salma Zahid
Thank you, Ms. Kwan, for raising that. I will discuss it with the clerk and the analyst to see what we can do to that end.
I want to apologize to all of the members, as well as the witnesses. I think there were some connectivity issues and some echoes, and at times it was very difficult to understand. I have raised that with the clerk of the committee, and that will be looked into by the committee logistics team also. We will try our best to make sure we don't have these issues in our meetings going forward.
I just want to emphasize for all of the witnesses that if there is anything you would want to raise to the committee members and you have not been able to raise it today because of time constraint or the connectivity issue, you can submit your briefs to the committee as we continue our study on the impact of COVID-19 on the immigration system.
With that, I would thank all of the witnesses for appearing before the committee, and thanks for the understanding and flexibility. Because of the votes, we were not able to start the meeting at 3:30. I want to apologize for that to all of the witnesses. Thanks for being flexible and for being with us as we have gone beyond 5:30.
With that, we will end the meeting. Thanks to all of the members also. We will see you on Wednesday as we continue our study.
The meeting is adjourned.