Evidence of meeting #1 for Subcommittee on International Human Rights in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
A recording is available from Parliament.
3:55 p.m.
The Clerk
Thank you so much.
4 p.m.
NDP
Heather McPherson NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
I wanted to clarify only one thing in what the clerk put forward. It was my understanding that it was seven minutes for each party and then five minutes for each party, not five minutes alternating between the government and opposition parties.
4 p.m.
The Clerk
Okay. It would read:
and that thereafter five minutes be allocated to each subsequent questioner in the following order: Liberal Party, Conservative Party, Bloc Québécois, New Democratic Party, and that wherever possible, witnesses provide their statement to the subcommittee 72 hours in advance.
4 p.m.
The Clerk
Thank you.
4 p.m.
The Clerk
Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
4 p.m.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
Mr. Chair, now that we've dispensed with those matters, I was hoping to deal look a little bit ahead as to what we might be doing. Is it appropriate to do so at this time or is my timing off?
4 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
We can. We do have some time.
Mr. Reid, what we can do, though.... As you know and have brought up, some of the witnesses who have come forward have talked about very serious issues, and at times privacy is of concern and paramount. I believe the clerk has set up a way for us to go in camera to discuss those. If you feel that we would want to be in camera for something that you might be bringing forward, then I think it would be best that we do that.
4 p.m.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
You know what? I don't think it's necessary, but out of an abundance of caution, it can't hurt to do that, so why don't we go in camera?
4 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
Okay. As for how it's going to work, Clerk, could you walk us through it?
4 p.m.
The Clerk
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This meeting will end. You will all be kicked out of this Zoom meeting. I'm going to send around a new link and a new password. I will also send these to your indicated staff who will be supporting you through the in camera portion of meetings.
Once this meeting ends, please give us about five minutes. Then you can try to log on to the new meeting.
4 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Peter Fonseca
It will be a good trial for us, too, to go through this process.
I guess we're all going to log off. Then we're going to get a link to our P9s and log back in. We'll see you shortly.
[Proceedings continue in camera]
