Public Safety Committee on June 15th, 2011

Evidence of meeting #1 for Public Safety and National Security in the 41st Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Committee Business

Election of Chair

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Andrew Bartholomew Chaplin

6:10 p.m.

NDP

Don Davies NDP Vancouver Kingsway, BC

The way we did it the last time...and we're in agreement with the first round and the second round. I think the trick is the third round. Whether you go back to the first round or the second round, it's unlikely, to be frank, that you're going to get to the Liberal position even if you did go back to the first round, to 7, 7, and 7. That's the position we in the NDP were in the last time, and we rarely got to that position, but it did happen on occasion.

6:10 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

I think you had some pretty good chairing--

6:10 p.m.

NDP

Don Davies NDP Vancouver Kingsway, BC

Yes, it was outstanding chairing that would sometimes see us speak a second time.

But either way, we had 37 seats in the last Parliament. When the times were figured out, we ended up going down to 36, but we had 37. That's exactly how we had it: seven minutes in the first round. But I'm pretty sure that in the last Parliament for the third round we reverted back to the first one to go 7, 7, and 7, so....

6:10 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

It would end up being basically the same.

6:10 p.m.

NDP

Don Davies NDP Vancouver Kingsway, BC

It would be pretty much the same, yes. Would you like to repeat the--

6:10 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Do you know what else we could do? We could actually put it at the discretion of the chair. If it's the third round, the chair can decide.

6:10 p.m.

NDP

Don Davies NDP Vancouver Kingsway, BC

I think you should set it out.

6:10 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

Here's what I would want to see happen. Francis, you weren't on this committee, but Don, Brent, and some others were. I want to see that if everybody wants to ask a question, they get a chance to ask a question. If somebody doesn't have another question when we come to the third round and you're sitting there champing at the bit, generally I've been pretty lenient that way, but it is nice to have it spelled out. It's nice to have some of those things on the paper.

You're going to be drawing up this speaking list. Would it go back to the first?

6:10 p.m.

Conservative

Candice Bergen Conservative Portage—Lisgar, MB

Yes, it would go back to the first.

6:10 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson

That then would give you--