Evidence of meeting #54 for Status of Women in the 39th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was teachers.
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Liberal
Maria Minna Liberal Beaches—East York, ON
Do you want to leave it to the next meeting? Is that what you want, or do you want to just kill it?
Liberal
Maria Minna Liberal Beaches—East York, ON
When will we deal with it—at the beginning of the next meeting?
Conservative
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
Fair enough.
Is it agreed that we defer this to the beginning of the next meeting?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
Fine.
I have one very quick thing that Ms. Mathyssen would like to bring it up. It will take a minute or so.
Ms. Mathyssen.
NDP
Irene Mathyssen NDP London—Fanshawe, ON
I went to Pauktuutit, because I'm very concerned about the testimony we heard in regard to the crisis in Inuit communities. We received the invitation last week. It seems to me that it would be very beneficial if the committee could go north to see what is happening there first-hand.
If we could travel, I'm wondering what the process is for accomplishing that.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Yasmin Ratansi
I discussed that with the clerk. Basically, an invitation should come from the group to the committee chair. Once it comes, the committee discusses its priority and the merits of it. We'll do due diligence on whether we need to go there. Once the committee approves it, we put it to the Liaison Committee for approval of the budget, and then it moves forward.
I checked with the Clerk of the House as well. If you have received a personal invitation, for example, then you can go personally and you do not represent the committee. If you want to go anywhere personally, you can go at your own expense, but never invoke the name of the committee.
Does that answer your question?
Conservative
Joy Smith Conservative Kildonan—St. Paul, MB
There is something I'd like to put on for the next meeting. The bells are ringing, so I didn't bring it up. The people from up north had asked about it and I was going to bring that to the chair next meeting, so could we put that on the agenda for the next meeting as well?
