Evidence of meeting #2 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 subcommittee.
A recording is available from Parliament.
11:20 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
I know. I'm staying here this weekend, so I have Friday open. I think everybody else is going home.
Sunday would be great. It would give us time to get it out Monday, and Tuesday is the meeting.
Mr. Clarke.
11:20 a.m.
Conservative
Alupa Clarke Conservative Beauport—Limoilou, QC
I just want to know who will be attending the subcommittee meeting on Monday. How do we choose?
11:20 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
We picked the subcommittee at the last meeting. It would be the two vice-chairs, me, and the two members, who are Mr. Fraser and Ms. Lockhart.
11:20 a.m.
Liberal
11:20 a.m.
Liberal
11:20 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
A notice of meeting will be sent out, but it would be nice to get your schedules so that we can accommodate everybody.
There's another thing I want to bring up. We would have received an email on this a while ago. It's about order in council appointments. I think everybody got this.
I don't know whether anybody wants to discuss it today, or whether there are any questions to be asked on this. Procedurally this has been passed, basically. The committee can look at this and study it. I don't think we're willing to change it. We can just receive it.
Should we put that on the next agenda, because it wasn't on the agenda today, or do we send it out in an email? Everybody would have received it, I think.
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
We'll send that out and put this on next week's agenda also. It would have been early February, but it's in a table form now. We can wait for the next meeting on that.
There were a couple of other things the clerk wanted me to discuss. Are there any dietary requirements, which is always important, or any favourite requirements? We're trying to do paperless agendas. I believe an email was sent yesterday on SharePoint, where we can find all of our material.
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
Sherry Romanado Liberal Longueuil—Charles-LeMoyne, QC
Sorry, Mr. Chair, but we've checked, and there were no agenda items for this meeting on SharePoint. The notice of appointment was not on SharePoint, so we're a little ill prepared at this point to look at that. If items could be put on SharePoint in a reasonable time to allow us to look at them, it would be most beneficial.
Thank you.
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
The clerk has made note of that.
With regard to the orders in council, we'll have that out for next week's meeting. I believe we'd just have a motion to receive it. We have copies that we can hand out too—so much for paperless.
The other thing is that everybody has a copy of the minister's mandate letter. There are lots of things in there. If there's anything in particular that we want the committee to study, send that out to the subcommittee. We'll discuss that, and then we'll discuss it at the next meeting.
Mr. Clarke.
11:25 a.m.
Conservative
Alupa Clarke Conservative Beauport—Limoilou, QC
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If I understand correctly, we have three days to decide on all our priorities for studies until the end of June.
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
In an ideal situation, that would be. We'll have three days to submit; we'll discuss it at the next meeting, and we'll have to pass it. If we need more time, we can bring it into the next meeting.
11:25 a.m.
Conservative
Alupa Clarke Conservative Beauport—Limoilou, QC
For instance, if we meet a certain group and then notice there's a problem we were not aware of, can we say that we're going to add this one to our studies and discussion on the way?
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
The majority of them, yes we can. That's not a problem. We wouldn't be breaking any rules. We could switch on the fly with a motion.
11:25 a.m.
Conservative
Alupa Clarke Conservative Beauport—Limoilou, QC
—a general framework of where we're going, but there can be more clarification in the details.
11:25 a.m.
Conservative
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
Ideally, Monday, if we can come up with the framework for the work plan, if we can't get it passed or get the discussion through, we'll have another meeting. Unless we have a plan, we can't move forward.
Mr. Kitchen.
11:25 a.m.
Conservative
Robert Gordon Kitchen Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
We talked about the document that was prepared for us. It's excellent, and thank you very much for doing that for us. Obviously, some of us are very new to this game—
11:25 a.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Neil Ellis
I think we only have one veteran here; we're all going to be calling on you for your experience.
11:25 a.m.
Conservative
Robert Gordon Kitchen Conservative Souris—Moose Mountain, SK
Now that we're sitting here and we have what's in front of us, did you want to discuss this document at all, or have some comments and feedback on it?
