Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee on May 13th, 2020

Evidence of meeting #8 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs in the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was centres.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Government’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Chief Robert Bertrand Congress of Aboriginal Peoples

Christopher Sheppard-Buote President, National Association of Friendship Centres

Lindsay Kretschmer Executive Director, Toronto Aboriginal Support Services Council

Edith Cloutier Executive Director, Val-d'Or Native Friendship Centre

Clerk of the Committee Ms. Evelyn Lukyniuk

Jocelyn Formsma Executive Director, National Association of Friendship Centres

Larry Frost President, Toronto Aboriginal Support Services Council

1 p.m.

Conservative

Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

Yes, just in terms of procedurally going forward, I know Bob Zimmer dropped a notice of motion.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bob Bratina

Yes.

1 p.m.

Conservative

Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

It wasn't an actual motion so it wasn't debatable. Having said that, I hit the “raise hand” button immediately. Other people went ahead, which is fine, but—

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bob Bratina

I'm sorry.

1 p.m.

Conservative

Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

No, no, I'm just saying this. Going forward, is there a way in which we can get the attention of the chair to speak without unmuting our mikes? I tried to do a chat with the chair just to say I'd like to bring up an issue, but there was no way to do that, no feature I could reach you at other than turning on my microphone and interrupting the meeting.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bob Bratina

What I would suggest is that we have an informal meeting coming up and we can do that with the clerk and determine that. I'm beside myself trying to juggle all of these things and then look for a small blue hand, and I know you understand that.

1 p.m.

Conservative

Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

I absolutely do. Yes.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bob Bratina

Let's pick that up offline. It's a very good point and I appreciate that.

1 p.m.

Conservative

Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

Yes, because you could see how it could come to trouble if we had an actual motion and the speaking order got out of control.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bob Bratina

I think the raised hand is the best way. It's on the far right-hand side of my screen and it's small. I'll do my best to pay more attention to that. This is the first attempt at solving this.

I did, actually, solve the problem of getting Ms. Bérubé her proper place in the speaking order, which I did do.

1 p.m.

Conservative

Jamie Schmale Conservative Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON

Baby steps.

May 13th, 2020 / 1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bob Bratina

Thank you.

Thank you, all. The next meeting will be Friday, May 15, from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m.

This meeting is adjourned.