It must be the chair.
Evidence of meeting #40 for Veterans Affairs in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was battlesmart.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #40 for Veterans Affairs in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was battlesmart.
A recording is available from Parliament.
5:05 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Yes, it must be. I agree. I should have phoned him up and sweet-talked him myself, I suppose.
February 28th, 2011 / 5:05 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Anyway, we've talked these things all over here again. Bill C-55 will be looked after in this committee once it goes through the House and is directed to this committee. As far as that goes, I know my analyst has said also that if we're looking at when we want to present a report to the House, then we work backwards from there in terms of how many days it is going to take us to analyze the report and to okay it. Again, the biggest thing is Bill C-55. Is it going to be in this committee for one day, one week, one month? Does our analyst not even have to worry about doing a report?
I think that we have to get our ducks in a row. Our big thing right now is that for the next two or three meetings, we have to work around the minister to see if we can get the minister here to do the estimates. If we can do the 7th, the 9th, or the 21st with the minister, what we're going to try to do is to work around that with our witnesses. We'll see when Bill C-55 comes back up to the House when it gets sent to this committee, because it will have to be fitted in, and if we're doing whatever we're doing, we'll have do work things out then.
5:05 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Yes.
The clerk has advised me that if we don't get the minister here next week, it will be unlikely that we can get witnesses here for that, so either Bill C-55 is there or we will contemplate what we're going to do when we come back. I have talked to my analyst, and he could bring in a version of a report that we could look at. We'll see if we can put something like that, because there might be something there, and we could ask other witnesses to fill in the blanks.
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Liberal
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
Mr. Chair, what would typically happen if we're dealing with the estimates of Veterans Affairs? Can we not be provided with some of the background information prior to that particular meeting?
5:05 p.m.
Liberal
Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
So you just hit the “send” button and we've got it, basically.
5:05 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
Okay. I'm going to leave it up to my clerk to see when she can get the minister to do the estimates. If it's next Monday, fine. If it's next Wednesday, fine. If it's the Monday after that, fine.
5:05 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gary Schellenberger
The deadline is the 21st. If my clerk can't get these meetings put together, there will not be a meeting on that particular day. Okay?
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A voice
Agreed.
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Conservative