Evidence of meeting #3 for Justice and Human Rights in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was vote.
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The Clerk
No, but you would need unanimous consent to basically vote on them, with the same vote result, in a block.
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Liberal
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Iqra Khalid
Okay.
ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNALS SUPPORT SERVICE OF CANADA
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$61,610,764
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$29,037,902
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
COURTS ADMINISTRATION SERVICE
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$85,028,677
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Vote 1—Operating expenditures..........$262,288,103
Vote 5—Grants and contributions..........$430,219,581
(Votes 1 and 5 agreed to on division)
OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR FEDERAL JUDICIAL AFFAIRS
Vote 1—Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs—Operating expenditures..........$9,452,925
Vote 5—Canadian Judicial Council—Operating expenditures..........$2,079,634
(Votes 1 and 5 agreed to on division)
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$181,447,273
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
REGISTRAR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA
Vote 1—Program expenditures..........$26,438,911
(Vote 1 agreed to on division)
Shall I report the main estimates 2020-21 to the House?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Iqra Khalid
Thank you.
We're moving on to the supplementary estimates (B) of 2020-21.
CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Vote 1b—Program expenditures..........$650,000
(Vote 1b agreed to on division)
COURTS ADMINISTRATION SERVICE
Vote 1b—Program expenditures..........$4,647,968
(Vote 1b agreed to on division)
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS
Vote 1b—Program expenditures..........$2,569,491
(Vote 1b agreed to on division)
REGISTRAR OF THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA
Vote 1b—Program expenditures..........$79,237
(Vote 1b agreed to on division)
Thank you.
Shall I report the supplementary estimates (B) 2020-21 to the House?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Iqra Khalid
Wonderful. Thank you, everyone.
I will seek your indulgence to stick around a little bit longer as we go through the important things we need to talk about.
Just a couple—
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Conservative
Rob Moore Conservative Fundy Royal, NB
I have a point of order, Madam Chair.
We're on a schedule here. I'm happy to deal for the next eight minutes, but I can't stick around after that. I'm assuming that everyone else has tight schedules, too.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Iqra Khalid
Hopefully, we'll be done by eight minutes. Thank you, Mr. Moore. For one or two minutes, I would seek your indulgence.
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Bloc
Rhéal Fortin Bloc Rivière-du-Nord, QC
Madam Chair, I have to leave, but my fellow member Luc Thériault is going to stand in for me on the issue of Bill C-7.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Iqra Khalid
I'm just going to come to you first, Monsieur Fortin, because one item deals with you.
The clerk has received notification from the Bloc Québécois that Monsieur Thériault intends to participate actively in the Bill C-7 study. He will be replacing Monsieur Fortin.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Iqra Khalid
His office would like to be added to our distribution lists and to our digital binder for the duration of the study. Is it okay with the committee for us to move forward with that?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
October 29th, 2020 / 12:50 p.m.
Bloc
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Iqra Khalid
Thank you, Monsieur Fortin.
Just in moving on to Bill C-7. We are not voting on it until 3 p.m. today, at which time it will be referred to our committee. For the first meeting—which is scheduled for November 3, this coming Tuesday—if I have the consent of the committee, I would like to invite Ministers Lametti, Hajdu and Qualtrough to appear together on Bill C-7. Would that be okay?
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Liberal
Arif Virani Liberal Parkdale—High Park, ON
Madam Chair, I believe it's those three ministers and their officials, so perhaps their deputy ministers as well.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Iqra Khalid
Okay. Thank you. That's that.
With respect to the witness list, I have, I believe, 99 to 100 names on the list. At our last steering committee meeting, we decided that we would have four meetings for witnesses and then two meetings for clause-by-clause. Four meetings would have two panels per meeting, which would be eight panels of three witnesses per panel. That would come to a total of 24 witnesses.
If I have the consent of the committee to just make things more equitable for everybody, in the instance of the 24 witnesses that we have given ourselves allowance for, we'd divide it so that 10 of those witnesses are proposed by the Liberals, 10 by the Conservatives, two by the Bloc and two by the NDP; and we'd allow for an unlimited number of written submissions to be made by any witnesses and be received by the clerk. Is that okay?