Evidence of meeting #50 for Veterans Affairs in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was benefits.
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Liberal
Frank Valeriote Liberal Guelph, ON
I won't be obstructive. If it's there, I will be here. If a meeting is called, I will be here, Mr. Chair.
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Conservative
Pierre Lemieux Conservative Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
Yes, one hour. My proposal would be it would be after votes for one hour.
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NDP
Sylvain Chicoine NDP Châteauguay—Saint-Constant, QC
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's short notice. Neither John nor Peter will be here tomorrow. As for me, I can't commit to finding people. I'm not against the idea of holding an extra meeting, but it might be better to have it next week. I could say yes but, at the same time, I know that two members of the committee probably won't be available.
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NDP
John Rafferty NDP Thunder Bay—Rainy River, ON
This is just a personal thing for me. I'm actually going back to my riding right after this meeting. I won't be here tonight, nor will I be here Thursday. This is important. If we could move it to next week, that would be good. I'm already missing two this week.
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Conservative
Pierre Lemieux Conservative Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
I don't think we can move it to next week because it has to be reported back to the finance committee by June 2.
I agree with you that it is short notice. I will say, too, that I offered a week and a half ago or two weeks ago to have two meetings. It's only now that the clerk has been trying to reach witnesses that we have found out that not all the witnesses can come to fill these two. The meetings will be full, but there are witnesses who said they could come on Wednesday night. As I said, they're not our witnesses or star witnesses. They're just—
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Royal Galipeau
I think we've had a fulsome discussion on this.
Do we agree or disagree?
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Conservative
Pierre Lemieux Conservative Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
I look to the opposition to see what....
I'm making it as a proposal, Mr. Chair.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Royal Galipeau
I have agreement from the government. I have agreement from the third party.
Do we have agreement from the opposition?
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An hon. member
Yes.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Royal Galipeau
Thank you all for your cooperation.
The 51st meeting of the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs will be tonight in this room from 6:30 to 8:30.
I want to thank our witnesses, Mr. Parent and Mr. Forbes.
I particularly want to thank Mr. Forbes for complimenting the committee on its work. I took good note of that.
This evening we will continue our study on division 17 of part 3 of Bill C-59.
In our first hour, we will hear from the Royal Canadian Legion.
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Royal Galipeau
I'm going to let you know more tonight.
The meeting is adjourned.
