Evidence of meeting #19 for Public Safety and National Security in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was security.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Gilles Rhéaume  Vice-President, Public Policy, Conference Board of Canada
Michael Kergin  Former Ambassador to the United States and Special Advisor to the Ontario Premier on Border Issues, As an Individual
Perrin Beatty  President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Benjamin Muller  Professor, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University

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Liberal

Mark Holland Liberal Ajax—Pickering, ON

Just extremely quickly, that was precisely my point. Maybe I didn't make it clearly.

For example, if we took the issue of energy independence and showed the United States how we were able to be part of that solution on something that is so topical and so important to them, if we went to them with a plan and said, this is how we can do that, but if we're going to do this, we also need to be working on these other things, do you feel that might be an effective approach?

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President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Perrin Beatty

We would position ourselves as part of the solution as opposed to part of the problem.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz

I would like to thank all of our witnesses for appearing before the committee. We appreciate your testimony.

This meeting stands adjourned.