Public Safety Committee on Nov. 29th, 2018

Evidence of meeting #141 for Public Safety and National Security in the 42nd 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

Bill C-83

Supplementary Estimates (A), 2018-19: Votes 1a and 5a under Canada Border Services Agency, Vote 1a under Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Vote 1a under Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Vote 1a under Correctional Service of Canada, Votes 1a and 5a under Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Vote 1a under Office of the Correctional Investigator of Canada, Vote 1a under Parole Board of Canada, Votes 1a, 5a and 10a under Royal

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Angela Connidis Director General, Crime Prevention, Corrections and Criminal Justice Directorate, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

Ruby Sahota Brampton North, Lib.

Luc Bisson Director, Strategic Policy, Correctional Service of Canada

Jim Eglinski Yellowhead, CPC

Juline Fresco Counsel, Legal Services, Department of Justice

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Olivier Champagne

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

Which is the proper order?

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Conservative

Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB

Five is first.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

Five what?

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Conservative

Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB

It's in sequence.

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Liberal

Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON

We don't have it.

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Conservative

Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB

They're both there. The other was the next one I want to move.

There are two of them. They're separate.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

I know, but the first one up should be CPC-2.31.

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Conservative

Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB

You tell me which one you want and I'll move it, Mr. Chair.

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Liberal

Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON

Mr. Chair, should we suspend for a few minutes?

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

Not just yet. I'm intending to do that.

Actually, when I think about it, I was going to suspend at 5:30 for 15 minutes.

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Conservative

Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB

Why?

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

Because we're.... Yes, Ms. Sahota.

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Brampton North, Lib.

Ruby Sahota

My amendment is coming up in a couple of amendments from now and I'm going to have to leave after that, unfortunately. I'd love to have the opportunity to be here.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

So you want to keep on going.

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Brampton North, Lib.

Ruby Sahota

Yes.

November 29th, 2018 / 5:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

Okay. It's 5:30. I've given notice to pretty well everyone that we need to sit in order to be able to complete this bill. I hope a lot of you are prepared to sit.

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Conservative

Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB

We have another day, though, do we not?

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

No, this is it.

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Conservative

Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB

We have this day and another day.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

The sequence is that we would report this bill on Monday.

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Conservative

Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB

We have two days.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

We'd report this bill on Monday and the debate would start on Wednesday.

I'm in the hands of the committee. Do you want to just keep on plowing through?

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Brampton North, Lib.

Ruby Sahota

We're not quite sure what to do with Mr. Motz's amendments because we've received them so late, so we might need to break for a little bit.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal John McKay

Well, that's the thing. You see—

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Brampton North, Lib.

Ruby Sahota

I was wondering if I could—