Veterans Affairs Committee on May 1st, 2007

[Marc Toupin]

Is there agreement?

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

Is there agreement to change the header as well?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

Shall I report the bill as amended to the House?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

Done.

Yes.

[An hon. member]

When are we going to vote?

[Roger Valley, Liberal, Kenora, ON]

Exactly. We have to vote tomorrow night on, what's it called again, an extension?

[Betty Hinton, Conservative, Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, BC]

Make sure that one's passed and we'll take care of the other one next.

[Roger Valley, Liberal, Kenora, ON]

Is there a reason that it can't be reported to the House now and voted on tomorrow night?

[Brent St. Denis, Liberal, Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, ON]

No, it goes back to the House for third reading.

[Roger Valley, Liberal, Kenora, ON]

It has to go back for third reading. Okay.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

There's a question from the clerk as to whether the bill should be reprinted.

[Brent St. Denis, Liberal, Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, ON]

I think it has to be.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

It does make a kind of sense, doesn't it? Why not? We've made changes to it.

Sure. This also gives Mr. St. Denis probably a couple of hundred copies to pass around to friends and whatever, right?

[Albina Guarnieri, Liberal, Mississauga East—Cooksville, ON]

That's 500.

[Brent St. Denis, Liberal, Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, ON]

No, I need 33,000.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

All right. Send them out willy-nilly across the country.

How are we doing for time? I think this is pretty much a wrap.

[The Clerk of the Committee, Mr. Alexandre Roger]

Would you report tomorrow?

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

I don't know that we're going to decide anything substantive here at this juncture anyway. We'll figure out something.

Mr. Stoffer.

[Peter Stoffer, NDP, Sackville—Eastern Shore, NS]

Just as a point of interest for all of you, on Friday at 11:30 at the national cenotaph there will be a ceremony marking the liberation of Holland. The Dutch ambassador—

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

Where is this?

[Peter Stoffer, NDP, Sackville—Eastern Shore, NS]

It's at the national cenotaph at 11:30 on Friday, to mark the liberation of Holland. The Dutch ambassador will be there, people from various veterans groups will be there, and people from VAC and DND will be there as well. It will take about a half an hour or so and that's it.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

You know, one thing we could do as an elegant solution for the Thursday question is potentially to cancel Thursday's meeting and have that as the committee's gathering on Friday.

[Peter Stoffer, NDP, Sackville—Eastern Shore, NS]

Well, whoever is here, you're all welcome.