Evidence of meeting #41 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was projects.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Liberal
Gerry Byrne Liberal Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte, NL
Procedurally, let me ask the clerk to provide some advice. Can I add another layer to this and ask whether, in addition to actually having the question put by 4:30 on Tuesday, November 17, it can be specified that it cannot be amended? Is that procedurally...?
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Some hon. members
No.
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Conservative
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Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
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Liberal
Gerry Byrne Liberal Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte, NL
I think there's a good reason why I asked the question, but....
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NDP
Peter Stoffer NDP Sackville—Eastern Shore, NS
Let's not necessarily cancel November 19 right away, because something may pop up and we may need that time for something else. But if we find on November 16 and 17 that we're done and don't need it, then we can cancel it at that time.
My question was about December 8 and December 10. It says, “to be determined”. I believe last time I asked that, if possible, those dates be reserved for Fraser River sockeye.
4:55 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rodney Weston
That's a good point. That was on a previous work plan, which the subcommittee discussed but which we never approved. The original plan was to set aside one sitting day, whether December 8 or another, to develop a work plan on the B.C. aquaculture industry, and specifically the Pacific salmon issue and the Fraser River, or along that line—we had the proper wording there.
I'm sorry, that was dropped from a work plan that was never adopted. So we will amend the work plan to add the December 8 date to include that. Thank you.
Mr. Byrne, you wanted to say something.
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Liberal
Gerry Byrne Liberal Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte, NL
We are juggling a whole lot of topics right now. I was wondering whether we wanted to use it for the small craft harbours program, just to get this thing moving and finalize it.
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rodney Weston
Yes, we have several dates set aside for the small craft harbours report as well.
Why don't we hold November 19 at this point, and the committee can decide on November 17 what they want to do for November 19? If they want to forgo that meeting at that point, if they decide.... Let's just hold that one in abeyance for now; we'll keep it here for NAFO, should we need it or want it.
Mr. Stoffer.
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NDP
Peter Stoffer NDP Sackville—Eastern Shore, NS
Thank you, Chair.
I don't want to put a fly in the ointment, but François, help me out again. When do the estimates come out?
Randy, do you know? Isn't it usually in November?
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Conservative
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NDP
Peter Stoffer NDP Sackville—Eastern Shore, NS
Normally what happens is when they come out we ask officials to come in and then we ask a whole bunch of questions. I didn't mean to put a fly in the ointment here, but....
4:55 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rodney Weston
We'll check on that. We'll try to establish it.
We have a subcommittee report here that's been amended drastically. If everyone's in agreement, we'll adopt the subcommittee report.
It is moved by Monsieur Blais and seconded by Mr. Stoffer that we adopt the report of the subcommittee.
(Motion agreed to)
