Transport Committee on Dec. 1st, 2010

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

Mr. Jean.

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

Yes, Mr. Chair. Is it the case that we need unanimous consent by all parties to continue? That's correct, right? During a bell, that's the rule. Certainly the government would give that. The vote, I understand, is at 4:20. The government will give its unanimous consent to continue, so that both--

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

Then I'll reset the clock, and we'll start with three-minute rounds.

Ms. Jennings.

I need unanimous consent for it too.

[Marlene Jennings, Liberal, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, QC]

Given Mr. Guimond's statement, and he's quite right, does this committee also intend, given that there will not be a full round of questioning of the witnesses, to have the witnesses come back at a further date for the full questioning they normally would have had?

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

I would suspect they'd have no issue with that, and I know we have set these meetings outside our regular meetings to fulfill some of the questions we wanted.

Mr. Jean.

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

If we start now, I have no difficulty giving the Liberals a full five minutes, the Bloc a full five minutes, and the NDP a full five minutes in the first round to ask any questions they want.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

Mr. Bevington.

[Dennis Bevington, NDP, Western Arctic, NT]

We're in a time crunch now. The walk back is five minutes, so we're already down to ten minutes for questioning. I don't see this as making any sense at all. I think we need to move on and bring these witnesses back at the next meeting.

[The Chair, Conservative, Merv Tweed]

As someone who can always take good direction, I think that's a good suggestion.

I'm going to suggest that we invite you back as our guests again. We will adjourn the meeting for today. Sorry about that. Thank you.

The meeting is adjourned.