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Minutes of Proceedings

Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA)

43rd Parliament, 1st Session

Meeting 12

Friday, May 22, 2020, 11:04 a.m. to 1:06 p.m.

By Videoconference

Webcast

Presiding

Sean Casey, Chair (Liberal)

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Members of the Committee present

Liberal

Conservative

Bloc Québécois

Louise Chabot

Acting Members present

• Anthony Housefather for Kate Young (Liberal)

• Jenny Kwan for Leah Gazan (NDP)

Associate Members present

• Marilène Gill (Bloc Québécois)

In attendance

House of Commons

• David Chandonnet, Procedural Clerk

• Jean-Marie David, Procedural Clerk

Library of Parliament

• Elizabeth Cahill, Analyst

• Eleni Kachulis, Analyst

• Mayra Perez-Leclerc, Analyst

Government’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Witnesses

As an individual

• Tammy Schirle, Professor, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University

• Hon. David Onley, Senior Lecturer, University of Toronto Scarborough

Guardian Law

• Michelle E. Guy, Managing Partner

Moodys Tax Law LLP

• Kim G.C. Moody, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Canadian Tax Advisory

Fédération des Mouvements Personne D’Abord du Québec

• Louise Bourgeois, President

• Olivier Villeneuve, Director, Mouvement Personne D’Abord de Saint-Jérôme, Sainte-Thérèse et Saint-Eustache

• Nathalie Valade, Resource Person, Mouvement Personne D’Abord de Sainte-Thérèse

Spinal Cord Injury Canada

• Bill Adair, Executive Director

Pursuant to the order of reference of Saturday, April 11, 2020, the committee resumed its study of the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tammy Schirle, Kim G.C. Moody and Michelle E. Guy made statements and answered questions.

At 12:02 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 12:19 p.m., the sitting resumed.

David Onley, Bill Adair, Olivier Villeneuve and Louise Bourgeois made statements and answered questions.

At 1:06 p.m., the committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

Marie-France Lafleur

Committee Clerk