Health Committee on Nov. 25th, 2010

[Colin Carrie, Conservative, Oshawa, ON]

I was trying to make a point that the volume and the ask that my colleague is making is unreasonable. If we do seven days or nine days--just between 2004 and 2006--it will be extremely difficult to provide what he's asking for. We're certainly not in agreement with seven days or nine days either. I think it should be a question on the order paper.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Monsieur Malo.

[Luc Malo, Bloc, Verchères—Les Patriotes, QC]

Madam Chair, if you look at the blues of the meeting, you will see that the committee unanimously agreed to move the meeting from December 7 to December 9 and give 9 days for documents to be presented.

I invite you to go back and look at that. The question was asked and we answered it.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

There was unanimous consent to put the tobacco meeting on the ninth, but we still have to deal with the time element on that motion. We haven't agreed to that yet.

[Luc Malo, Bloc, Verchères—Les Patriotes, QC]

Madam Chair, in that case, we really do not need to amend Mr. Dosanjh's motion. We have a motion that was in order and passed. We simply want to give ourselves two more days. If the party in power does not want to allow two extra days, they are free to say no. Let's leave that to one side.

But let's still have the meeting about tobacco on December 9 and, on December 7, the meeting will be a working session on the scope of the study we want to do on healthy living.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

The request was for Mr. Dosanjh to bring forward those documents to help everything out, but the fact of the matter is that in a committee a member cannot be compelled to do that. The House can compel him to do that, but the committee cannot. So we have that clarified, right? Good.

So that motion cannot go forward, Dr. Carrie.

We'll go back to the motion.

On the ninth we are going to be doing tobacco. On the seventh you want to do healthy living.

[An hon. member]

Yes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Good, so on the seventh we'll do healthy living.

[Luc Malo, Bloc, Verchères—Les Patriotes, QC]

It will be an in camera meeting to decide on the extent of the study we want to do.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

We'll go in camera on healthy living.

So we can cite the committee business you're talking about, Monsieur Malo.

[Monsieur Malo]

Voila. Absolument.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Monsieur Malo, we've got you. Good.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear!

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

It's pretty bad when the committee applauds when I actually get it--it's sad actually.

So we'll proceed that way.

For the life of me, I don't know how these people are going to get all these documents in, even in nine days. I might be wrong, but how do we proceed if they cannot do that? We'll deal with it when they come; that's all we can do.

Now we're going to talk about injury prevention. I would like Karin to go....

If you want to prevent your injury, Mr. Dosanjh.... No, I'm just teasing.

We have to pay attention to this. We have to clarify what we're going to be studying on injury prevention. We've talked about childhood and adults, so we need some input from the committee.

Karin.

[Karin Phillips, Committee Researcher]

I guess the only question I have is whether we're focusing as well on injury prevention in relation to consumer products. I know that was a topic of a recently released PHAC report. I just wanted to get confirmation....

[Colin Carrie, Conservative, Oshawa, ON]

I think we've covered that already, so why don't we focus on other things?

[Karin Phillips]

Okay. That was it.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Great.

We've come to the end of committee business today.

Thank you, committee.

The meeting is adjourned.