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Foreign Affairs committee That's a planning figure, sir, and that number may change. It's a small adjustment. We don't plan.... In our funding for those major fragile states—Haiti, Afghanistan, Sudan—we plan to be pretty constant over the next little while.
March 14th, 2012Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee There was nothing in the analysis that I saw on the--
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee --program proposal.
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee My dealings with Kairos were on the proposal that they submitted to us and that was the--
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee There are some decisions the minister has delegated to the department. On these issues, no, the minister has the authority to make the decision.
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee Yes, it was a memo with a recommendation to seek a decision.
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee Well, a recommendation is a recommendation. It's advice coming from the department and it does not have any authority. The authority comes when the decision is made by the person who has the authority to make the decision.
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee I'm sorry, I can't.
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee When a decision is made by the minister, I am usually notified about it verbally, because I'm in communication with the minister and her chief of staff at all times. In this case, her decision was delivered to me verbally, so to be honest, I wasn't focusing on the document.
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee The minister's decision, to me, was clear. I didn't focus on the document.
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee Chair, as I indicated earlier today, I am aware of other circumstances where Minister Oda's decision and direction to the department included the insertion of the words “not” or “do not”. That's a point of fact. On your second issue, it would be clearer and less confusing if the minister's decision and direction was written “do not approve”, “do not agree”.
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee Yes, I said that.
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs
Procedure and House Affairs committee No, I don't have it here with me.
March 18th, 2011Committee meeting
Margaret Biggs