Evidence of meeting #1 for Veterans Affairs in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was move.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
Doug Eyolfson Liberal Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley, MB
Chair, could I have another motion? This might be either an extra motion or a revision to the travel accommodation. I'd like to move that when witnesses wish to appear but are unable to travel, they can appear by teleconference. Would that be a reasonable option?
NDP
Christine Moore NDP Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
I don't think that has to be in a motion. If a witness is not available, we could just offer him accommodation by video conference. I don't think it has to be on paper.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
We can subpoena them and make them come, or as a committee we could decide that they could teleconference.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
I guess the other procedural discussion is whether we could teleconference in, but that would be a discussion for another day.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
Yes, it's a question of logistics.
This is all we have on the agenda for today. We could adjourn or we could discuss where we want to go right now. Otherwise, we could wait until we have a meeting on Thursday and there would be an agenda coming out on that.
Are there any suggestions?
Liberal
Colin Fraser Liberal West Nova, NS
I would propose that we wait until Thursday to do that, so I'll make a motion to adjourn.
February 16th, 2016 / 11:20 a.m.
Conservative
Robert Gordon Kitchen Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Before we entertain that motion, I wonder if we could invite the minister to attend at his pleasure to discuss the mandate letter at his earliest convenience.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
The motion is as follows:
That the Minister of Veterans Affairs be invited to appear in front of the Committee at his earliest convenience.
Is there discussion on that? If not, we could call the vote.
NDP
Christine Moore NDP Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
I think maybe we could first check on the availability of the minister. When we discuss our agenda at our next meeting on Thursday, we'll figure out when he is available and decide then. I think it's an easier way to proceed.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
If that's fine with Mr. Kitchen, we could ask the minister if he could give us some dates on which he could attend, and we'll try to bring him back at the earliest convenience.
Conservative