Evidence of meeting #2 for Agriculture and Agri-Food in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was inspection.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
I'll call us to order.
Mr. Miller, would you move your motion onto the floor and read it into the record? It's been circulated.
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Conservative
Larry Miller Conservative Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, ON
Mr. Chairman, thank you.
I'd like to move the following: That the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food request that the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food conduct a full review of all inspection fees charged by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and; that this information be used by the Minister to investigate possible options for the government to deal with the inequity between what Canadian Livestock Producers and Packing Plants pay for inspection fees as compared to their counterparts in the United States.
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Conservative
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Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Mr. Chairman, we are in agreement with the motion in general, although I would like to move an amendment.
I move that the motion be amended in the third line by inserting, after the word “be”, the words “shared with the standing committee on agriculture and”.
I think that, in French, at the end of the third line, after the word "Ministre," the words “partage cette information avec le Comité permanent de l'agriculture et l'” have to be inserted.
Oh, forget the “l'”; you don't need it.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
We have an amendment on the floor from Mr. Regan.
Go ahead, Mr. Miller.
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Conservative
Larry Miller Conservative Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, ON
Geoff, are you basically trying to make sure that the committee sees it?
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Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Yes, I want to make sure the information is shared with the committee.
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Conservative
Larry Miller Conservative Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, ON
Okay. I would have presumed that. Could you go over the exact wording?
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Liberal
Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS
Sure. I'll read it to you, as follows: That the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food request that the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food conduct a full review of all inspection fees charged by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and; that this information be shared with the Committee and used by the Minister to investigate possible options for the government to deal with the inequity between what Canadian Livestock Producers and Packing Plants pay for inspection fees as compared to their counterparts in the United States.
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
That makes it easy. It's a friendly amendment.
Are there any other comments or discussion?
(Motion as amended agreed to)
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
We have no other business on the table. I'll take the motion to adjourn.
So moved by Mr. Lauzon.
Meeting adjourned.