Evidence of meeting #118 for Transport, Infrastructure and Communities in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was meeting.
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9:50 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
I'm going to suggest we go forward with the three hours that we said. We take the second hour of November 8 that we would have been spending on airport noise and use it to be able to put forward any suggestions based on the testimony we heard in the three hours, and we circulate any suggested amendments to the clerk as soon as possible. That way, we all know what the thought process is, since we will only have that one hour.
Does that sound like something that satisfies everybody?
Ron.
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Conservative
Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB
I support that. I just want to make the point that if we can, as a result of the testimony we heard, make a recommendation from the committee versus individual members, it has much more strength.
That, I would suggest, would be the purpose of the committee doing the study.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Conservative
Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB
I have just one more question.
With regard to airport noise, what are we going to be doing next Thursday?
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The Clerk
We just have witnesses on airport noise, which I would have to reschedule for the 27th or the 29th.
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Conservative
Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB
Are they coming from a fair distance, or are they local?
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The Clerk
They're mostly from Montreal and Toronto, I believe.
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Conservative
Ron Liepert Conservative Calgary Signal Hill, AB
I always hate rescheduling people when we ask them to come to appear before us. I don't know if this is going to be very popular or not, but what about adding an hour that day, versus cancelling the airport noise witnesses?
I never feel very good about cancelling people we ask to come on a specific day.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
Thank you. That's very considerate.
What is everybody's schedule? Would we want to add another hour to the meeting on November 8 in order to accommodate all of the things we're trying to do? I don't know what everybody does in the next hour after they leave here.
There's been a suggestion that we add an hour on November 8.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
Okay, so we're going to add an hour on to the November 8 meeting. If that's okay with everybody, that's what we're doing.
The November 8 and November 6 meetings are both going to be three hours.
Go ahead.
9:55 a.m.
The Clerk
I have a question on the process that you have in mind.
Is it just a general discussions on recommendations, or do you want to go clause-by-clause to see—
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
No, there will just be recommendations that come out as a result of what we hear in the three-hour session.
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Conservative
Kelly Block Conservative Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek, SK
Could I follow up on that suggestion by asking that the order of that day be the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the legislation, and then our witnesses?
We're just pushing them back one hour. Do you think that's going to affect their travel?
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The Clerk
I would need to ask. Some of them have very tight schedules, but some of them are flexible.
I would need to ask them individually.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
Could you check to see if they have the extra hour so that we can put them in the last hour? We can do the PBO, and then any amendments on Bill C-86, and then we would move to....
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The Clerk
If not, should I reschedule them?
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Conservative
Kelly Block Conservative Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek, SK
No. I think that if the committee has agreed that we lengthen the—
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
We've agreed to do the extra hour.
The clerk will work with all of us. We'll try to be as accommodating as possible to make it all work.
All right, what else do we have on here?
There's M-177, which is a study on flight schools. The second hour is scheduled for November 22. The clerk has asked that we have witness lists by next Thursday, November 8.
For November 8, can we have any suggested witnesses for M-177, the motion from MP Fuhr on flight schools?
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
We start on November 29. We should get it November 8, for November 29, which gives them two weeks' notice. We'll see how that accommodates everybody.
Supplementary estimates will be on November 22 with Minister Garneau. Infrastructure has confirmed that they're going to send the deputy minister for supplementary estimates. Minister Champagne will be here on December 6, in Centre Block, for that meeting.
There's one other thing I want to raise. The trip that we were talking about to St. John's, Newfoundland, the last week of January, has not seemed to be received very well out there.
Go on, Mr. Rogers.
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Bonavista—Burin—Trinity, Lib.
Madam Chair, I want us to go to St. John's, Newfoundland, but given Newfoundland winters, I'd much prefer that we reconsider the time frame and look at maybe April. The chances of getting to the province at that point would be much greater than in January, when at any time you could have a snowstorm that interrupts the trip. I suggest we look at April.