Public Accounts Committee on April 25th, 2007

[The Chair, Liberal, Shawn Murphy]

Six.

[David Sweet, Conservative, Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, ON]

We have six with these added, or six already?

[The Chair, Liberal, Shawn Murphy]

We have six already, so eight.

[David Sweet, Conservative, Ancaster—Dundas—Flamborough—Westdale, ON]

We will have eight witnesses for two hours. That's my concern, not the witnesses but the volume and the complexity of trying to question.

[The Chair, Liberal, Shawn Murphy]

Mr. Laforest has one minute.

[Jean-Yves Laforest, Bloc, Saint-Maurice—Champlain, QC]

Mr. Chairman, I fail to understand Mr. Williams' position. Mr. Wrzesnewskyj needed unanimous consent to move his motion. So, had he voted against unanimous consent, the motion would not have been moved.

I call for the vote. If he disagrees, he will vote no, that's all.

[The Chair, Liberal, Shawn Murphy]

I'm going to hear from Mrs. Sgro for up to one minute, then I'm going to call the motion.

[Judy Sgro, Liberal, York West, ON]

My colleague did introduce a request at our last meeting, on Monday, to have these two appear before the committee. What he's saying is that the only difference is that today he's asking specifically if they could come on Monday because they're tied in to the witness and the relevance of that. That's the only reason, I understand. He's being specific about Monday and he's also indicating that they just have to confirm an e-mail they received confirming the details of Mr. LaFosse's testimony.

[John Williams, Conservative, Edmonton—St. Albert, AB]

We cannot have somebody saying I want a witness here for five minutes because he wants to ask one question, because everybody may want to ask questions.

This committee is run by the steering committee, and it makes the decisions about who comes and when.

[The Chair, Liberal, Shawn Murphy]

I'm going to call the question.

(Motion agreed to)

[The Chair, Liberal, Shawn Murphy]

The meeting is adjourned.