Public Accounts Committee on June 1st, 2006

Evidence of meeting #6 for Public Accounts in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was leblanc.

On the agenda

Chapter 5, Management of Programs for First Nations of the May 2006 Report of the Auditor General of Canada

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Clerk of the Committee Ms. Danielle Bélisle

Paul LeBlanc Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Socio-economic Policy and Regional Operations, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development

Sheila Fraser Auditor General, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Hélène Gosselin Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Health

Ian Potter Assistant Deputy Minister, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Department of Health

Ronnie Campbell Assistant Auditor General, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

Glenn Wheeler Principal, Office of the Auditor General of Canada

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NDP

David Christopherson NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

Can we make that two different letters, Brian? Do you mind? It's just that they're two entirely different focuses.

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Conservative

Brian Fitzpatrick Conservative Prince Albert, SK

It's all dealing with mould.

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NDP

David Christopherson NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

Well, okay. If that's what it takes to get your vote, Brian, I'll do it.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Shawn Murphy

Can I get your attention, please? It has been pointed out by the clerk that we don't have quorum.

What I'd like to do is take these two issues back to the very first of the next meeting. I agree with them, by the way. I certainly support them.

The other option, of course--and you can think about this--is that we're going to try to get a steering committee next week. We could invite the deputy minister for a very short meeting to firm up some of these issues that are still very much dangling after two hours and so many minutes. So why don't we put them both on the agenda for when we come back?

Before we adjourn, I want to make a couple of announcements. One is that one of the legal opinions we were waiting for is being circulated now. People have that, and that will be coming forward.

Also, on Monday afternoon we have an informal briefing session on the two chapters that we'll be talking about next week. Of course the first one is the Canadian Revenue Agency, on Tuesday, on debt collection. The second one will be on Thursday. We're going to go for a three-hour meeting, the first two hours of which will be taken up with Public Works and Government Services Canada dealing with government leasing, and the last hour will be with Margaret Bloodworth, James Judd, and somebody from Public Works and Government Services Canada. That's the hour from 1 to 2 o'clock next Thursday, a week from today.

So those were just announcements. There's nothing else.

Again, I want to thank you, Mrs. Fraser and officials, and Madame Gosselin and Mr. LeBlanc and officials, for coming here today.

Thank you very much. The meeting is adjourned.