Evidence of meeting #2 for Public Safety and National Security in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was clerk.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
We have the 22nd, when possibly the officials can come, and the minister can come on the 27th.
The next meeting is on the 29th. For the 29th, do we wish to invite witnesses on Bill C-3? Keep in mind that we also want to do the witness protection and wrap that up here before Christmas.
We've had five requests to appear on Bill C-3: the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Bar Association, the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, there's a group, in French, here....
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The Clerk
La Ligue des droits et libertés.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Yes. I don't know how to translate that.
And then, last of all, the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law.
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An hon. member
All of them.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Do you mean at the same time? Not likely. We would have three at a time?
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Liberal
Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville, ON
You can't have an august body such as the Canadian Bar Association without giving them a full hour.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Yes, but we could have one meeting, and we could have two or three of them appear at one meeting. That is what our usual practice has been.
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Liberal
Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville, ON
It depends on how important they are. For example, if you had two important groups, one being the Canadian Bar Association, you would have only one for the first hour and one for the second hour.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Yes, two or three. We've often had two or three.
All I am doing, so far, is telling you that these are the people who've asked to appear, and there may be other suggestions from other people.
Mr. MacKenzie.
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Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
In the interest of trying to tighten it up, Mr. Chair, I would agree with you that if we can have two or three at a time, that's one thing. If the committee feels strongly that we can't have three, then I would suggest we add a day in there somewhere.
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Liberal
Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville, ON
Mr. Chairman, I think we need to see the list. If we think all angles have been covered, it may be just the five groups. But we may come up with a couple of others to add, and then of those there are the ones that I think are super important and the ones that maybe could fit on a panel. Sometimes you can have four or five groups represented on a panel if they're not national in nature.
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Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
You don't have the list of names of the people who've asked to come?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
I think this request was made to the clerk of the committee.
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Liberal
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The Clerk
They were requests made to my office.
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Liberal
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
The suggestion has been made that we try to fit in some extra meetings.
Does anybody have any comments on that?
Mr. MacKenzie.
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Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
I think, Mr. Chair, that we should try to determine whether or not the committee is satisfied with the list of witnesses.
