Subcommittee on International Human Rights Committee on March 12th, 2015

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.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Human Rights Situation in Eritrea

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Excellency Dominique Rossetti Chargé d'affairs en pied (e.p.) to Sudan and Ambassador Non-Resident to Chad and Eritrea, As an Individual

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Michael MacPherson

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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

David Sweet Conservative Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, ON

Sorry, were you waiting for me?

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NDP

Wayne Marston NDP Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, ON

Yes. You're so important, you see.

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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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Liberal

Adam Vaughan Liberal Trinity—Spadina, ON

Yes.

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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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NDP

Wayne Marston NDP Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, ON

We had.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Scott Reid

Now they're set aside in firmer....

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Conservative

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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NDP

Wayne Marston NDP Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, ON

Yes, I think so.

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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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NDP

Wayne Marston NDP Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, ON

Yes.

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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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NDP

Wayne Marston NDP Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, ON

He's the guy with the big stick over there.

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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

David Sweet Conservative Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, ON

That's in June, you were saying?

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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....