Status of Women Committee on March 3rd, 2011

Evidence of meeting #59 for Status of Women in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was language.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Language Changes at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

David Angell Director General, International Organizations, Human Rights and Democracy Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Jamieson Weetman Deputy Director, West and Central Africa Relations, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Elissa Golberg Director General, Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force Secretariat, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Jim Nickel Deputy High Commissioner, High Commission of Canada to India

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Could we have order, please?

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Tilly O'Neill-Gordon Conservative Miramichi, NB

We need translation.

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Madame Boucher, you were speaking.

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Merv Tweed Conservative Brandon—Souris, MB

We need translation.

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Are you still having problems with translation?

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Merv Tweed Conservative Brandon—Souris, MB

I'm getting translation now.

Tilly?

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Is everyone receiving translation? Or just some people?

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Tilly O'Neill-Gordon Conservative Miramichi, NB

I was getting it before now.

12:55 p.m.

Bloc

Nicole Demers Bloc Laval, QC

It is working on this side.

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

I would like to ascertain whether this is a general problem with translation or whether maybe some of the jacks aren't working well. That's all I'm trying to do.

Is everyone receiving English and French translation?

So that group is, but you're not...? Could it be the jacks? I had this problem at a committee the other day. The jack was pushed completely in but very little was coming out of it. I would ask you to pull out the jack and push it back in to see if that makes a difference.

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Limoilou, QC

I will wait two seconds so that you can hear the translation of what I am saying.

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Ray Boughen Conservative Palliser, SK

I can hear you speaking, but you're speaking English.

12:55 p.m.

Voices

Oh, oh!

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

All right. Do you think we should try again?

12:55 p.m.

An hon. member

Sure.

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Madame Boucher, would you like to start?

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Sylvie Boucher Conservative Beauport—Limoilou, QC

I was saying that this works very well in other committees. Here, we have had many problems in the past in getting ministers to appear. Now we have a minister who is prepared to discuss this with us, but we do not want to hear him. I have a bit of difficulty with that, particularly since the minister...

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

Excuse me.

You're not getting translation...? Can we suspend for a few seconds while we get this technical glitch sorted out?

Or no, it is now one o'clock, and the meeting is over, so we will have to take the continuation of this motion to the next meeting. That is actually going to be a week from today because we are not having a meeting on Tuesday in honour of International Women's Day, etc. We will return to this issue on Thursday.

May I have a motion to adjourn?

Madame Boucher so moves.

The meeting is adjourned.