Foreign Affairs committee  Sorry, can you clarify what the difference is, Dean? Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm just trying to follow the logic here, Chair. You were saying that in a previous parliament, when you were travelling with a committee, only two people showed up and it was embarrassing, and I grant you that. I'm not sure this deals with that. This is actually saying you'd go

Foreign Affairs committee  Just for the record, I wasn't really keen on changing the 48. I think we should keep it as it is. I think it has the potential to take away from committee members the ability to have their issues on the agenda, so to speak, particularly if we use words like “abandonment”. Notwith

Foreign Affairs committee  That's right, a short period of time to do that.

Foreign Affairs committee  I understand.

Foreign Affairs committee  I wanted to establish the fact that I'm opposed, not because of the Bloc motion, but because of the McGrath committee, which in 1985 had recommended that we don't have parliamentary secretaries on steering committees. I know that had been the position of a previous party in oppos

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, if I may. Sorry to impose myself again. It's just that on the list, I'm not seeing.... I heard the Chamber of Commerce. Was the Halifax Initiative invited? I think there was one other that we certainly had put forward. I don't have my notes from the last meeting. We have s

Foreign Affairs committee  KAIROS--thank you. Have they been invited?

Foreign Affairs committee  Great. I just want to make sure they're on the list, and that was it. Thank you very much.

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, Chair. I just wanted to turn it over to amendment by Madame Barbot, who had, I think, brought forward to the clerk what we'll call a friendly amendment. This was simply because there were two motions, one by the New Democratic Party and one by the Bloc, and it was a matter

Foreign Affairs committee  It's for Bill C-6, the bills and voting.

Foreign Affairs committee  We haven't heard yet. We haven't had notice. It's the procedure and House affairs committee. They haven't given us a schedule on that one.

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm going to echo some of the comments made. The understanding at committee, I believe--correct me if I'm wrong on this, Chair--was that we were talking about having a preliminary report. So it was just an omission in the text. That's a common sense thing to do. I'd like to add

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, I would, Chair, and I won't take long. This is actually a bring-forward from the previous committee's business and work. Chair, I think it's well known that the humanitarian crisis in Darfur has been called by many a genocide in slow motion. We need to be able to look at

Foreign Affairs committee  Point of order, Mr. Chair. I think it's important to note that recently the government--in fact it was the foreign affairs minister--announced economic sanctions against Burma, or Myanmar. I was going to speak to this later, but I think it's important to bring it up now. This is