Evidence of meeting #32 for Public Safety and National Security in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was report.
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11:15 a.m.
Liberal
Sue Barnes Liberal London West, ON
So we'll have two regular meetings on our regular other business and then would return, I would suggest, to this on the first Tuesday we are back. At that time, we may or may not be able to wrap it up on the Tuesday and Thursday, though I hope we'd be able to wrap it up at that stage.
11:15 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Would somebody be able to give us a briefing on no-fly lists? Would they be ready by Tuesday?
February 22nd, 2007 / 11:15 a.m.
The Clerk
I could try.
11:15 a.m.
Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
I thought that's where we were at.
The other thing, Mr. Chair—
11:15 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Repeat where you believe we're at; just repeat it for the record.
11:15 a.m.
Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
I believe that when Ms. Barnes talked about a briefing, it had nothing to do with this. It was a briefing on some other issue.
11:15 a.m.
Liberal
Sue Barnes Liberal London West, ON
That's right. I just don't want to lose the time in the committee.
11:15 a.m.
Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
And I agree with her on that.
The other part is that I think the clerk may have heard back from the minister's office. Could I tentatively say that the minister would appear on March 1 with regard to your request on arming border guards?
11:15 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
March 1 is the Thursday one week from today.
Would you be amenable to that?
11:15 a.m.
Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
That's just tentative. I understood that's a possibility, so if we just—
11:15 a.m.
Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
Well, he tentatively would be available for an hour on March 1, which would still give us an hour for—
11:15 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
As I see it, we would have a briefing on no-fly lists on Tuesday, and we would ask the minister to come before the committee on the issue of the arming of border guards on Thursday. Then after the break we would start considering the report.
11:20 a.m.
Liberal
Sue Barnes Liberal London West, ON
I think we should try to do the report as fast as possible, and we now have two weeks over the break to really try to understand it.
11:20 a.m.
Conservative
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Liberal
Sue Barnes Liberal London West, ON
Mr. Chair, I have to tell you that all these plans will fly up in the air if the House leaders don't agree.
11:20 a.m.
Conservative
11:20 a.m.
Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
You only have to tell the House leader to read the law and he will understand we need time.