Evidence of meeting #16 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was witnesses.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Julie Dzerowicz
I'm going to give our clerk two to three minutes to get his thoughts together. I'm going to suspend for three minutes, come back and read the motion as amended.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Julie Dzerowicz
We're back in session.
The clerk is now ready to read the amended motion.
The Clerk
It says:
Given that the committee is currently studying the Canadian immigration system, it is proposed that an additional meeting on “Operation Citizenship”, a bureaucratic initiative aimed at expediting the processing of citizenship applications in the months preceding the 1995 referendum—
This is the amendment:
—be held the week of December 8, 2025, based on the availability of the witnesses—
We will delete “on December 9”.
—that, for the purposes of this meeting, the former Prime Minister of Canada, Jean Chrétien, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration at the time, Sergio Marchi, as well as the Deputy Minister at the time, Peter Harder—
This is part of the amendment:
—and other witnesses, be invited—
Next, the subamendment says:
—that a maximum of 20 minutes per hour be dedicated for the opening statements by the witnesses, using the usual five minutes each and the usual rounds of questions; that this meeting last two hours; and that the committee report its findings to the House.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Julie Dzerowicz
I have a thumbs-up from Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe.
Do I have a thumbs-up from you?
No, Ms. Rempel Garner wants to speak.
Conservative
Michelle Rempel Conservative Calgary Nose Hill, AB
Very briefly, I'm inclined to support this motion as amended, because the situation in the past speaks to the government's behaviour of altering immigration processes or documents to achieve a political outcome. I am interested, in the context of the current Bill C-12, in how the past could influence the future. I'm interested to hear the testimony of these witnesses.
The Conservatives will support this motion.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Julie Dzerowicz
Thank you.
We are ready to vote, Mr. Clerk.
(Motion as amended agreed to: yeas 9; nays 0)
Thank you very much.
Since that is the end of our agenda, the meeting is adjourned.