Evidence of meeting #3 for Transport, Infrastructure and Communities in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was international.
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NDP
Peter Julian NDP Burnaby—New Westminster, BC
Okay, you should be getting something from my office later today.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC
Mr. Chair, could we make sure that the representatives of the operators are contacted to see whether they want to be...or are they already on the witness list?
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The Clerk
Yes, they're expected to come.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
And may I suggest that for the next meeting, rather than deal with this internal issue with witnesses here to present, we do it in the last 15 or 20 minutes of the meeting? That way we don't have people who are here to make presentations listen to the discussion we have about order.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Merv Tweed
It might create the problem of doing it again the way we did it today.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
I had no problem with that. I think for the most part, I don't think we're going to have an issue. But it comes to the point where we have five witnesses and they come in and take an hour and fifteen minutes or an hour and a half of time and we only have thirty minutes to question. Quite frankly, what's going to happen in that circumstance is we're going to see all the opposition parties taking up the majority of the time, and we're going to have one member from the government ask a question. For thirty minutes--
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Merv Tweed
We'll check the blues as they were written and we'll have that discussion at the next meeting. Is that reasonable?
Thank you.
The meeting is adjourned to the call of the chair.