Industry Committee on July 20th, 2010

Evidence of meeting #26 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was shell.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

The impending closure of Shell Canada's Montreal refinery

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Christian Houle Chief Executive Officer, Montreal East Refinery, Shell

Richard Oblath Vice-President, Downstream Portfolio, Shell

Jean-Claude Rocheleau President, Shell Workers Union

Michael M. Fortier Chairperson, Follow-Up Committee of Shell Refinery

Claude Delage

Jim Boles Business Development, Delek US Holdings

Richard Bilodeau Acting Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Civil Matters Branch Division, Competition Bureau Canada

Jeff Labonté Director General, Petroleum Resources Branch, Department of Natural Resources

Martine Dagenais Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Competition, Mergers Branch Division B, Competition Bureau Canada

Michael Rau Advisor, Petroleum Markets, Oil Sands and Energy Security Division, Petroleum Resources Branch, Department of Natural Resources

2:25 p.m.

Liberal

Denis Coderre Liberal Bourassa, QC

Mr. Chairman, given that we will be receiving a letter of clarification, I would ask that as soon as you receive the document from Delek US Holdings with the financial information, you include it in the package as soon as possible. It would also be relevant to ask Shell to provide its term sheet.

Furthermore, because of the discrepancy between Shell's answers and those given by Delek US Holdings, I think it would be appropriate, if we deem it necessary after reviewing the documents, to consider the possibility of calling another meeting. We could then call Shell officials back before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology to provide further testimony.

2:25 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Michael Chong

Thank you, Mr. Coderre. I'll have the clerk review the transcripts and ensure that the documents you have requested are requested from Shell and Delek US.

In response to your question regarding additional meetings, we have two options as a committee. You can choose to trigger a Standing Order 106(4) meeting once again, before Parliament reconvenes in the autumn. Or alternatively, we can at any point as a committee in the autumn, once Parliament has reconvened, decide to have an additional meeting on that.

So without further ado, this meeting is adjourned to the call of the chair.