Evidence of meeting #13 for Public Safety and National Security in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was report.
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Conservative
Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB
I'm confused, Chair. We had a work plan developed in the fall, and now we're going to develop another work plan to do—
Conservative
Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB
Well, yes, of course it does, but at some stage we actually have to do the work we've actually been assigned. If the truth be known, I believe our colleague Joël already put a motion forward on online hate. The justice committee did a study on that. They had about 12 meetings, if I remember correctly, and had nearly 50 witnesses. That report was produced. The government never did respond to that report.
I mean, it's important that we deal with it, but we also have important issues that we have right in front of us that we have already made motions of, which are part of a work plan that we already developed in the late fall. I think we need to stick with what we're doing, or else, as Shannon and others have said, we're jumping around over issues that we've never, ever dealt with. Damien has a motion that was put forward. I think we need to work on that. We have outstanding issues with the RCMP. I know that the report isn't done and translated yet, but we have another one we can deal with there too. We have, what, 10 or 12 outstanding issues before this committee, and then we add a new one.
Damien's is an all-party motion that I think would be fantastic. I'd certainly invite him to speak to it. That's what we need to be focusing on.
Liberal
Joël Lightbound Liberal Louis-Hébert, QC
Mr. Chair, seeing that it's already 5:40 p.m., we've gone beyond our time, and there doesn't seem to be any agreement, I think I'll move to adjourn. Let the subcommittee figure out what our work plan should be.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal John McKay
All right.
There's a motion to adjourn. It's non-debatable.
Okay. We're—
Conservative
Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB
Chair, I think your one-hour subcommittee meeting on Wednesday might take a little longer than one hour.
Conservative
Glen Motz Conservative Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner, AB
Of course I'll be there. I wouldn't want to miss meeting with you again, John. Come on, it's been so long. It's been, like, since December.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal John McKay
Thank you. We'll do what we can do and get at least one hour for sure. I'll talk to you about whether we can do anything beyond that hour.
Thank you, folks. The meeting is adjourned.