Evidence of meeting #2 for Industry and Technology in the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was study.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Members speaking

Before the committee

Boswell  Commissioner of Competition, Competition Bureau Canada
Durocher  Deputy Commissioner, Competition Promotion Branch, Competition Bureau Canada
Pratt  Senior Deputy Commissioner, Mergers and Monopolistic Practices Branch, Competition Bureau Canada

6:30 p.m.

Conservative

Raquel Dancho Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul, MB

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Monsieur Ste-Marie, for bringing this forward.

Of course, we certainly support having the minister come to committee to talk about her mandate. That's quite a broad topic, and I think there's a lot we can talk about. I appreciate that you put “for at least one hour”, so hopefully Minister Joly can give us two.

Our support for this is premised on the fact that we've also invited her for other things. I want to make it clear that our support for your motion does not mean that we no longer need her for other things, and this committee may agree to bring her in for other studies.

I just wanted to make that clear, but yes, we support it.

The Chair Liberal Ben Carr

Yes, Ms. Dancho, you or other members are free to invite any ministers or any other witnesses at a future date.

Colleagues, to be very clear, what we are speaking about right now is this specific motion that was just presented by Mr. Ste-Marie. My understanding—and I hope that understanding is still correct—is that we have agreement among the parties to adopt this motion. Rather than call a vote, I'm just looking for unanimous consent for the motion presented that's in front of us.

(Motion agreed to)

Colleagues, thank you for a productive and interesting first meeting.

Right before I adjourn, I'll say that it's very important for the clerk and the analysts that as soon as we are able, we get them the names and contact information—highlighting, bolding and italicizing contact information, although the italicization might not add anything—so that they can prepare. If you have witnesses for the study we adopted through the motion that was presented by Ms. Dancho earlier, please ensure that you're getting them as quickly as possible to the clerk and to the analysts, and then I'll make a decision about how we go forward.

The current plan, colleagues, is for us to reconvene on Monday. You will have to wait until there's an official notice sent out, but the plan is for us to convene, at which point we will continue our discussion. We'll try to see if we can get some witnesses ready for Monday, but in the absence of that, we'll have to pivot.

As a reminder, Wednesday's meeting will include having the CRTC commissioner, who was unable to join us on Monday, for one hour.

Ms. Dancho.

6:30 p.m.

Conservative

Raquel Dancho Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul, MB

In the past, we were told how many witnesses we'd get, and everyone had a deadline. Did you want to talk about that off-line? I just wanted to make sure.

The Chair Liberal Ben Carr

In terms of setting a deadline for witnesses, that's going to require a bit of conversation. Given our time on the clock right now, I'd rather push that to next week, if everyone is amenable to that. Wonderful.

The meeting is adjourned. Thank you.