National Defence Committee on March 22nd, 2016

[James Bezan, Conservative, Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, MB]

Definitely when they're in the public eye.... As we see our honour guard standing at the National War Memorial, they're under the protection of the Ottawa city police. That was one of the policies that had been implemented since then.

I think we're looking at what National Defence has made as recommendations, even to Public Safety as to how we protect our guys when they are on parade, but also how we protect members of the forces when they're on base or at a recruitment centre, or at any public event for that matter.

[The Chair, Liberal, Stephen Fuhr]

Mr. Garrison.

[Randall Garrison, NDP, Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke, BC]

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

I'm certainly in support of this motion.

My only concern in terms of priorities of the committee is that we had agreed to have an update on the progress on policies on sexual misconduct in the military. I would not like this to come ahead of that. I'm urging that we keep that as the highest priority for any open spots that we have.

[The Chair, Liberal, Stephen Fuhr]

Before we go to any further discussion, we had agreed to an update on sexual misconduct, a current operations brief from the CDS, and a brief on CSE.

This motion gives us lots of flexibility. I want us to consider that as we're debating it, because there's no timeline on it. We have a reasonable request with regard to priorities.

I'll give the floor back to the right, if they want to talk about this.

Mr. Gerretsen.

[Mark Gerretsen, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Just so we're clear, and I think it's been stated a couple of times, there's no particular timeline. It would be an understanding that the chair would insert it where he sees fit. That's the intent.

In that case, I have no problem supporting it.

[Sherry Romanado, Liberal, Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne, QC]

I want to reiterate that the security of our armed forces is of the utmost priority for me as well. Rest assured that it's something that I think we all support.

[The Chair, Liberal, Stephen Fuhr]

Is there more discussion on this particular motion as moved by Mr. Bezan?

(Motion agreed to)

[The Chair, Liberal, Stephen Fuhr]

It looks like we have unanimous consent.

[James Bezan, Conservative, Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, MB]

Looking at the clock, I'll save the other motion until Thursday.

[The Chair, Liberal, Stephen Fuhr]

Thank you very much.

Can I have a motion to adjourn? Thank you, Mr. Gerretsen.

The meeting is adjourned.