Evidence of meeting #36 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was desloges.

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On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Clerk of the Committee  Ms. Stephanie Bond
Chantal Desloges  Senior Partner, Desloges Law Group, As an Individual
Mark Ballard  Vice-Chairperson, Syria-Antigonish Families Embrace
Vilma Pagaduan  Settlement Counselor, The Neighbourhood Organization

5:45 p.m.

NDP

Jenny Kwan NDP Vancouver East, BC

Thank you very much.

I just want to ensure that submitting this request does not necessarily bind the committee to travel, because I think there are some other outstanding issues that we need to sort out in terms of the more detailed component to it. For example, given that this study is ongoing, there seems to be no end in sight on when we will actually complete a study, because we already have another one where the report is not yet finished. Consequently, we have all this stuff sort of piled up, so at some point I hope the committee would have a chance to talk about how we would move forward.

One thing that I don't think is conducive and helpful for the committee is to have multiple studies going on for a very long period of time—to the point where some of the witnesses' comments may even have been forgotten by committee members because we've dragged it on for so long that we can't complete the study and get the report out.

I just want to flag that as a concern that I have, Madam Chair. I'm not opposed to sending this forward and hopefully getting some sort of guidance or approval, as long as it does not bind the committee. I just want to be sure that's the case.

5:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Salma Zahid

Ms. Kwan, this is just an approval to put the preliminary submission to the liaison committee as the deadline is coming. We will have a detailed discussion in regard to these studies. We will be proceeding in our subcommittee. In our subcommittee on Tuesday, we can discuss in detail the timing of all these studies.

With that, I want to thank all the witnesses for appearing before the committee. I'm sorry for the disruption. This happens at times, and we don't have control over these things. Thanks a lot for your patience and understanding. Thank you once again on behalf of all the members for appearing before this committee and providing your important testimony.

The meeting is adjourned.