Agreed.
Evidence of meeting #5 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was study.
A video is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #5 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was study.
A video is available from Parliament.
11:30 a.m.
Some hon. members
Agreed.
11:30 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Sherry Romanado
Ms. Rempel Garner, you had a question with respect to the draft letter of intent for travel and the corresponding budget.
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Liberal
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Liberal Beaches—East York, ON
Is there anything that you need from us today, or when do we need to revisit that again?
February 25th, 2020 / 11:30 a.m.
The Clerk
Basically, the committee already agreed to submit a preliminary travel request. If there was intention of changing the locations or the destinations, you could revisit it today, but other than that, no, there's nothing to do at this time.
11:30 a.m.
Liberal
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Liberal Beaches—East York, ON
Then I guess the next step would be that if there was preliminary interest, it would come back to us through the liaison subcommittee, and then we'd need to talk about it.
11:30 a.m.
The Clerk
Exactly. The liaison subcommittee would invite us to submit a fully budgeted proposal.
11:30 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Sherry Romanado
Do we have a sense of when that letter of intent to travel will be prepared?
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The Clerk
Yes, it's—
11:30 a.m.
Liberal
11:30 a.m.
The Clerk
It's not us. The liaison committee has yet to be formed. It still has to form, and then it has to create its subcommittee. Once it exists—
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The Clerk
—it will be....
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Sherry Romanado
Okay. Perfect.
With that, I open the floor for any other business that members would like to bring forward. I'll verify with the analyst or the clerk if there's anything else that you need.
11:30 a.m.
Committee Researcher
I just want to be clear, again, about expectations regarding the telecom study, because there was mention of May 5, to see if there should be additional witnesses.
In order for us to give you a report that is translated into both official languages by the end of May, so that you can review starting in June and hopefully table before the summer, we're really working with the eight meetings that you've assigned for this, and then immediately after that we need to start drafting.
I'm sorry, but that's the support we can offer you for that. I wish we could do more, but I think realistically that's what we can offer.
11:30 a.m.
Liberal
11:30 a.m.
Liberal
Emmanuella Lambropoulos Liberal Saint-Laurent, QC
I thought the point of early submissions by witnesses, or by people who wanted to just submit briefs, was so that it can start earlier and so that we can potentially add whatever we find out in our travel and whatever we wanted to add to the study later on in May.
Was that not a possibility? Would we not be able to add to whatever it is that we studied before, or recommendations or whatever?
11:35 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Sherry Romanado
There are sort of three parts that go into the study. One part is written submissions. The second part is witness testimony, which we're hoping will go over the course of the eight meetings starting March 24 and ending at the end of April. If we are allowed to travel, there will also be what we hear when we travel, if authorized. All three of those parts will form part of the report.
On the idea of travelling, the thoughts were that it would be possibly in May because we'll have finished hearing the witness testimony. Then, during that time, the written submissions have been done, so while we're travelling that can also be done. It was all working in parallel, but again, this can be revisited. In order to make the deadline of submitting a report and tabling that in June, we are stuck on this very tight timeline.
I'm not sure if that's clear.
Are there any further questions or comments?
Seeing that there's no other business before the committee, could I have a motion to adjourn?
