I had asked you to stay until 10:45 so that we could have the last 15 minutes to look after some of our committee business. Unfortunately, there won't be any time for further questions, but I clearly think, as you can see from the results here, that we may want to have you come back in the future on specific parts of the report.
Thank you very much for coming. If you could supply the committee with the previous Stats Canada reports you mentioned that Ms. Mathyssen had asked about—perhaps you could supply them to the clerk, who will supply them to all the committee members—it might be helpful.
Thank you very much.
Okay, colleagues, we have a variety of items still to finish in a short amount of time.
I would first bring your attention to the issue of our work plan that's been distributed and the possible changes to it.
We've been trying to get confirmation of a joint meeting with aboriginal affairs. At our next meeting, we have officials from the Status of Women Canada. If we can't have the joint meeting with aboriginal affairs on June 6, I'm suggesting that we get someone from the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada or the Native Women's Association to come and present.
I will submit possible calendar changes to the committee. We are trying to get our joint meetings. Part of the problem for the meeting with the aboriginal affairs committee is that we're meeting at very similar times, and we haven't been able to get everybody to agree.
The specific issue that we wanted to discuss with the aboriginal affairs committee was on matrimonial real property rights. I want to reconfirm that, so we can narrow down the agenda.
On justice, they've asked us exactly what issues we wanted to have a joint discussion on. I believe, Ms. Mourani, it was violence against women specifically that you wanted to have a joint meeting on.
We're going to continue to move forward on that. We haven't been able to confirm the dates with them yet. We may have to end up with an extra meeting, over and above our two meetings, in order to be able to get a time together with them.
Minister Oda has indicated her great interest to come before the committee. We have tentatively booked June 22 with the minister. If necessary, we may have to try to find another time that accommodates the minister, because I think it's very important that she come to see us before we rise for the summer. We'll send out tentative changes to what might be on the schedule for everybody's consideration, if that's all right.
We have several motions on the table, which were distributed last week. We also have two operational budget requests that tie into the study on matrimonial property rights, as well as the study on economic security of women, which would need approval from the committee. We can do that next week or on Thursday, if you want to have a look at these. We can deal with them on Thursday when you've had a chance to go over them a little further.
We have three motions as well: one each from Ms. Mourani, Ms. Minna, and Ms. Mathyssen. But we have one more item of housekeeping business before we deal with the motions.
We have a couple of routine motions. I think they've all been distributed, including adding “and the government”, regarding a quorum to hold meetings to review and publish evidence. There need to be at least three members present, including a member of the opposition and the government.
We need a mover for that motion.
Mr. Stanton.