Industry Committee on June 7th, 2018

[Dave Forget]

Yes, and if I may add to that, 1,300 members of the DRCC received compensation last year. There are only 800 or so working members of the DGC. We don't cover the entire universe of working directors in Canada, so there are many who don't get the benefit of the collective agreement that's the umbrella for our members.

[The Chair, Liberal, Dan Ruimy]

Thank you very much.

On that note, I would like to extend a warm thank you to our panellists for coming in and sharing information with us today. We have quite a bit of work ahead of us. As you can see, it's quite the complex file. Once again, thank you very much for showing up.

I just need to spend two minutes with the group. I won't suspend, but if you want to say goodbye, we'll get right back down to it.

[Annie Morin]

Thank you very much.

[The Chair, Liberal, Dan Ruimy]

All right. Let's come back, everybody. Thank you very much.

Last week, the Ukraine delegation said they wanted to meet. We said that we couldn't do it during a committee. We're trying to arrange a lunch for Tuesday, June 12. I know that a couple of people have already said they would go. Lloyd and I will. Is there anybody here who would like to attend that lunch? We're just making the arrangements now.

[Maxime Bernier, Conservative, Beauce, QC]

What is the subject?

[The Chair, Liberal, Dan Ruimy]

It's the committee members and the Ukrainian delegation. They're in town for a couple of days. On that delegation, you likely have the chair of the subcommittee on state financial control and activities, a first vice-speaker, the secretary of the Canada-Ukraine Parliamentary Friendship Group, and the chair of the subcommittee on the assessment of bills regarding influence on budgets. It's that sort of stuff. We're looking at lunch on Tuesday, June 12, at noon.

[Wayne Stetski, NDP, Kootenay—Columbia, BC]

Just so I can let Brian know, where will it be?

[The Clerk of the Committee, Mr. Michel Marcotte]

It's in Room 356-S. It's on the Senate side. Unfortunately, there was no room in the restaurant, and none of the House of Commons rooms were available.

[The Chair, Liberal, Dan Ruimy]

It would be an hour. We'd have lunch. We need to know numbers.

[Wayne Stetski, NDP, Kootenay—Columbia, BC]

With a name like Stetski, I absolutely support your having the lunch.

[The Chair, Liberal, Dan Ruimy]

All right. Will you come?

[Wayne Stetski, NDP, Kootenay—Columbia, BC]

Well, Brian would be there, I think.

[Lloyd Longfield, Liberal, Guelph, ON]

Don't tell Brian about it.

[The Chair, Liberal, Dan Ruimy]

Can I see how many people will attend?

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

I could drop in later on, maybe, but I can't be there the whole time.

[Terry Sheehan, Liberal, Sault Ste. Marie, ON]

I could drop by, maybe.

[Dane Lloyd, Conservative, Sturgeon River—Parkland, AB]

It's a cultural lunch.

[The Chair, Liberal, Dan Ruimy]

So, we have three people, and we'll see.

We're good? We don't need to do this, do we?

[The Clerk]

We need a motion, because I can't pay for the meal.

[The Chair, Liberal, Dan Ruimy]

The meal will be paid for.

[Dane Lloyd, Conservative, Sturgeon River—Parkland, AB]

By the Ukrainians?

[The Chair, Liberal, Dan Ruimy]

By the Ukrainians? No we're paying their meal.

[Frank Baylis, Liberal, Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC]

We're paying for the perogy part.

[The Chair, Liberal, Dan Ruimy]

It's nice to have interaction. We've done this before, and it's nice to have off time where you can talk to your cohorts, especially the Ukrainians—

[Lloyd Longfield, Liberal, Guelph, ON]

I move that the clerk of the committee take the necessary steps to organize a working lunch between INDU committee members and the Ukrainian delegation on Tuesday, June 12, at noon, and that the cost of this activity be covered by the committee's budget.