Evidence of meeting #23 for National Defence in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was meeting.
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Liberal
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Maxime Bernier
I appreciate that.
Do you want to discuss other matters in line with that motion?
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NDP
Jack Harris NDP St. John's East, NL
Have we discussed the duration of the meeting on September 15? Is it a two-hour meeting as usual, or is it a full-day meeting?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Maxime Bernier
My understanding is that it's going to start at 9 o'clock in the morning, break at 11:30, start again around 1:30, and go until 4:30. It will be a full-day meeting. The clerk is going to do his best to get all the witnesses we want.
Mr. Harris.
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NDP
Jack Harris NDP St. John's East, NL
I don't know if we need a formal motion on this, but my suggestion was that we have at least three panels, three two-hour sessions that we could fit in there. Maybe we don't need to have the full half hour being taken up by presentations. Maybe they could have shorter presentations. That would give us more time, an hour and a half at least, for questions from the committee. So whatever witnesses we have, give them the maximum of 30 minutes between them.
That's my suggestion for format, and if that's acceptable, we don't need a formal motion of it.
Is that format okay? We can get three panels in.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Maxime Bernier
That is why we need the lists as soon as possible, so we can work on that with the clerk to be sure we have witnesses all day.
Are there any other comments?
Everybody agrees. So we will see you back in Ottawa on September 15 at 9 a.m.
Today's meeting is adjourned. Thank you, members of the committee. Have a great day.
