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View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Maybe it would be helpful if there was a government member who could provide us with the rationale for putting parliamentary secretaries in the Privy Council. What benefit is that to the whole parliamentary system?
Depending, I guess, on the answer that is forthcoming from the government to that question, would there be any situation where the parliamentary secretary would be sworn to cabinet secrecy because of that position, which would interfere in any way in the democratic operation of the committee, particularly the subcommittee on agenda and procedure? So perhaps we could be enlightened as to the answer to that question, or both questions.
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
Mr. Chair, is there a government member who can answer that question? Could I have an answer to that, please, as to the rationale behind making parliamentary secretaries part of the Privy Council?
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
That's true.
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
On a point of order, Mr. Chair, you asked for a vote. We took a vote. No one voted against it. Can I have a ruling from the chair whether that vote was indeed valid?
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
I want to thank all of you who have come today. I appreciate very much your coming.
I want to take just a moment to congratulate the Council of Canadians with Disabilities on your successful challenge of VIA Rail. I think that was a very important thing you did on behalf of Canadians with disabilities across the country, and I congratulate you on that.
I think all of us in this room are on board in terms of the need for international conventions that address issues like this. However, I guess my problem with international conventions is that we can pass all of these fine things, and have wonderful feelings of doing good, but when it comes to the whole question of having adequate monitoring of a country's ability to actually live up to the convention, and then, beyond the monitoring, to have some kind of mechanism of enforcement, we really run into serious problems, don't we, on the international scene?
Even in affluent countries like ours, where I think we have the resources to put into making sure that international conventions are observed at sort of the ground level for people with disabilities.... You run into situations in Third World countries where they might want to do this--and maybe they don't, but if they do want to--and yet they don't have the money to do it. They don't have the facilities. They don't have the kind of resources that we in our affluent nation have to help our people with disabilities.
So just as a very broad question to anybody who wants to take a stab at it, how do you get beyond the formation of a convention, the bringing together of countries that will actually sign it, and move into adequate monitoring and enforcement to see that it actually takes place?
Anybody.
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
I apologize for the coming and going. I have to leave, but thank you very much for coming. I really appreciate it, and I look forward to continuing to work with you.
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
We talked about having this meeting, and it is important. What do we see as the outcome of it? In light of whatever is going to happen after November 7, where do we see it going?
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
We need to set a time.
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
This is my duty day, unfortunately. It's a stretch.
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
Since I'm a regular at this committee, you might want to accommodate me.
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
I did today, but it was only because I said it would be for 15 minutes.
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
I can find a replacement, but that's not always easy.
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
I'm on duty the whole day.
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
We work in this party, you know.
View Reed Elley Profile
CPC (BC)
I'll be gone. I'm here on Wednesdays and Mondays.
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