Evidence of meeting #124 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 industry.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Edmonton Riverbend, CPC
You may refer to it as somewhere else.
Did we look into whether there's video conference there? I would imagine there's video conference in a place like Palm Springs.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
I think so. Maybe they would rather it be done by video conference.
I'll ask the clerk to respond.
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The Clerk of the Committee Ms. Marie-France Lafleur
I do have a lot of people who want to come in person because they believe it's a very important issue and the message is different in video conference.
Also, we budget for them to come here, and then if they do appear by video conference and it's cheaper, at least we have the leeway and the money to—
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The Clerk
Exactly.
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Edmonton Riverbend, CPC
Do we suggest this to them? Do we say that video conferencing is an option?
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The Clerk
Yes. I offer both.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
My understanding is that we encourage video conferencing as much as possible.
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Edmonton Riverbend, CPC
My second question is in terms of how many meetings we're looking at. I understand that four meetings has somehow been decided. Is that what we're thinking?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
We haven't finalized that, but based on our other studies, we were looking at four meetings being sufficient time. There seems to be a lot of interest in this issue.
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Edmonton Riverbend, CPC
If I may, Madam Chair, is there a subcommittee to this committee? I'm not privy to it, but it would seem that some of these decisions could be at least streamlined somewhat through a subcommittee meeting prior to coming to this one.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
Everything has to go back to the committee, though. So far we've managed to work out—
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Edmonton Riverbend, CPC
I just think we could streamline some of these things if a subcommittee—
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
We don't spend a lot of time on committee business, but we do have a 15-minute block in our next meeting to look at what's outstanding and so on.
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Edmonton Riverbend, CPC
I would encourage a subcommittee meeting, perhaps, to look at some of these things.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
Well, we certainly can do that. There's no question about that.
Are there any further questions on the budget?
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings]
It's approved.
The meeting is adjourned.