Evidence of meeting #123 for Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was randy.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
That's for at least one hour.
I think I see where the confusion lies here, and I hear what you're saying. It's “to appear before the committee and testify for at least one hour”.
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NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
That's fair enough. Thank you for that. I'm in full support of the amendment.
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NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
I would like to hear from the Ghaoui's, but maybe we'll save that for another day.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
Mr. Desilets, I would like to clarify something.
The amendment that we received asks that the motion be changed by deleting the word “each” and by deleting points (c) and (d). However, you said that you wanted each witness to speak for one hour.
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Bloc
Luc Desilets Bloc Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, QC
To make things simpler, we could delete the word “individually” from the wording “before the committee individually and testify for no less than one hour each”.
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Bloc
Luc Desilets Bloc Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, QC
If the committee wants to make it even more specific, it could be written as follows: “one hour for both witnesses”.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
I want to make sure that things are clear.
It would be “to appear before the committee and testify for no less than one hour”.
Do you agree?
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
I'll get the clerk to send it out, but it's a fairly minor change to the amendment.
Matt, I also want to address the other point you brought up about the amendment you proposed. If you recall, the motion was put forward by Mr. Barrett. For the amendment you spoke about, we adjourned debate and when we continued again, Mr. Barrett proposed a different motion than the one that was proposed.
The debate adjourned on Mr. Barrett's motion and your amendment on it as well. It was picked up again when Mr. Barrett proposed a new motion, so that's how we ended up in this place.
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NDP
Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
It feels like Groundhog Day, but that's fair enough. Thank you.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
You should walk in my shoes, Mr. Green.
The clerk will send the committee members the change to the amendment moved by Mr. Desilets.
We'll keep discussing the amendment.
I'm going to read it into the record: “the committee call on the following witnesses to appear before the committee and testify for no less than one hour”. That's really the—
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Liberal
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Liberal
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Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
It's not “individually”. I think “individually” was removed.
That's why I'd like to see it in writing, so that none of us have any confusion about it.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Brassard
Okay.
I'll read out that part again: “witnesses to appear before the committee and testify for no less than one hour”—
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Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
It's also deleting “individually”, I believe.
Is that correct?