Evidence of meeting #1 for Natural Resources in the 40th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
Navdeep Bains Liberal Mississauga—Brampton South, ON
This is a point of clarification. Do you mean one per MP?
Conservative
David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
I mean one per MP who's there plus one member from the party.
NDP
Bill Siksay NDP Burnaby—Douglas, BC
Chair, as I hear Mr. Anderson's suggestion, it is more restrictive than the one that was passed, if you're adding the “in attendance” phrase to that. I don't know if there was ever a situation in which a member of the committee who was absent from that meeting, for instance, could send a staff person or who had to leave the room temporarily would have to require their staff person to leave at the same time. So I do have some trouble with the phrase “in attendance”, and I would like to move an amendment to remove that phrase from the motion.
Conservative
David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
Before, it said that they be allowed to be accompanied, which means they have to be at the meeting. Previously, that's what it meant.
Conservative
David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
You can't send somebody when you're not at an in camera meeting. If we want to allow that, I guess we can, but we've never done that previously.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit
So Mr. Siksay, you were proposing what amendment exactly, so we have it correct?
NDP
Conservative
David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
That each committee member--and if you want to reword it so they'd be allowed to be accompanied--in attendance shall be permitted to have one staff member attend any in camera meeting. In addition, each party shall be permitted to have one party staff member attend in camera meetings.
Conservative
David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
[Inaudible--Editor]...party can send one as well, but you have to be here.
Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Mr. Chairman, I suppose if one were looking strictly at the wording of that, it would mean an employee of your party as opposed to your research bureau, your leader's office, etc.
I guess if we're accepting that the intent of that is that it include the research bureau, the House leader's office, and the whip's office as the party per se, we can live with that if we're agreed that's what we mean by it.
Conservative
David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
They can be employed by the whip's office or whatever. If you want to change that....
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit
Next is the motion on in camera meeting transcripts. Does anybody want to make a motion on that?
Mr. Shory.
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Leon Benoit
He's proposing the motion be as it is and was last time.
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
