International Trade Committee on Dec. 13th, 2010

Evidence of meeting #40 for International Trade in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was agreement.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-46, An Act to implement the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the Republic of Panama, the Agreement on the Environment between Canada and the Republic of Panama and the Agreement on Labour Cooperation between Canada and the Republic of Panama

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Gérard Lalonde Director, Tax Legislation Division, Director's Office, Department of Finance

Mike MacPherson Procedural Clerk

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Paul Cardegna

4:40 p.m.

Conservative

Ed Holder Conservative London West, ON

Oh, my God.

4:40 p.m.

Some hon. members

Oh, oh!

4:40 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Lee Richardson

In the words of that son of a Cape Breton mother, it's all good.

4:40 p.m.

Conservative

Ed Holder Conservative London West, ON

It's all good.

My Cape Breton mother would wish you all the very best this holiday season.

4:40 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Lee Richardson

All right.

That's all the business we have. We have given an indication of how we might proceed in the new year. We're going to come back with the report of our recent visit to the European Union. We're going to try to organize the visit to Washington to talk to our colleagues there about some pretty important that have recently come up, and ongoing issues. I would hope we could do that as early as the first couple of weeks of February, so be ready for that.

Do you have something you wanted to add?

4:45 p.m.

Conservative

Ed Holder Conservative London West, ON

As a final point, Mr. Chair, I'd like to thank Mario Silva--I'd like to pass this around, if you haven't seen it--for this article....

Pardon me?

December 13th, 2010 / 4:45 p.m.

Liberal

Mario Silva Liberal Davenport, ON

That's fine.

4:45 p.m.

Conservative

Ed Holder Conservative London West, ON

It's all of our pictures from the EU, and he wrote this very nice article in Portuguese, which I'm happy to translate. I'd like to pass it around and let the folks see it. It's very nice.

4:45 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Lee Richardson

Thank you.

For those of you who have a Portuguese translator, you can read all about us.

Thank you. It's been an interesting session, and we have made some progress. I appreciate it.

I wish you all a happy Christmas and a great new year.

We'll see you in the new year. Thank you.

The committee is adjourned.