Evidence of meeting #60 for Subcommittee on International Human Rights in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was ambassador.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Scott Reid
Just hang on for a second and we'll find out if we're comfortable with that.
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Conservative
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Conservative
David Sweet Conservative Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, ON
You are so kind. I believe that Mr. Vaughan probably just read what we knew, so....
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Scott Reid
Okay, so let's make sure that part of our scheduling process during the break will be to plop in those dates as being confirmed.
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Conservative
David Sweet Conservative Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, ON
I think we'd already set them aside.
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David Sweet Conservative Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, ON
They were locked in, but the Mexico motion robbed one of the days, I think. Am I correct on that?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Scott Reid
Good, all right. So I think we have that down, Mr. Vaughan.
Have we dealt with everything yet, Mr. Marston?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Scott Reid
I mentioned one thing to Mr. Marston just at the beginning. I had a phone call this morning from Senator Segal, I guess he's Master Segal now. Isn't he master of Massey College?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Scott Reid
He is the master of that particular domain. He said that a former justice of the Australian High Court—that's their Supreme Court—Michael Kirby, who has been doing a study on human rights in North Korea and has prepared a report, will be in Ottawa on June 9 and 11 and be available to come before us. Obviously, he was effectively lobbying me to bring this matter before you.
I've now done that, and if you see fit to have Justice Kirby, then one of you could move a motion. Just do it more than 48 hours before our next meeting and we could reach an agreement on that. If you don't see fit to do so, then that will be the end of the matter, but I leave it up to....
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Scott Reid
June, that's right. So it's essentially the second last week, maybe the third last week that we're here.
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Conservative
David Sweet Conservative Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, ON
I think we can do it by unanimous consent. We're not going to get anybody of that calibre....
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Wayne Marston NDP Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, ON
I was just going to say, don't waste an opportunity.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Scott Reid
Okay, can we then leave it up to his convenience to choose one or the other?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Scott Reid
He obviously has a schedule. We'll try to get that ironed out as soon as possible.
Good. Thank you.
In that case, thank you, everybody.
We are adjourned.
