Transport Committee on March 1st, 2011
Evidence of meeting #51 for Transport, Infrastructure and Communities in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
A recording is available from Parliament.
On the agenda
MPs speaking
Also speaking
- Chad Mariage Procedural Clerk
3:55 p.m.
Conservative
3:55 p.m.
Conservative
3:55 p.m.
Conservative
3:55 p.m.
Conservative
Brian Jean Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is in relation to section 17. Section 17, of course, is not part of Bill C-511. However, to clarify, and for greater certainty, it...for it is an offence to contravene both a provision of the act and any regulation made under it.
Specifically, Mr. Chair, right now the wording is, “Every corporation that contravenes any provision of this Act ”, but it does not refer to regulations. What we're asking is that government amend it so that it will include this act, or the regulations in particular. We want to give greater clarification and also make sure that, obviously, once the regulations are published, enforcement provisions would apply there as well.
4 p.m.
Conservative
4 p.m.
Liberal
4 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Merv Tweed
You're fine? Okay.
(Amendment agreed to) [See Minutes of Proceedings]
(Clause 3 as amended agreed to)
(On clause 4)
We are on government amendment three.
Mr. Jean.
4 p.m.
Conservative
Brian Jean Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
Mr. Chair, I apologize, but my usual cheat sheets are not helping me very much in relation to the order of it, so I'm going to have deal with it—
4 p.m.
Liberal
4 p.m.
Conservative
Brian Jean Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
Please, Mr. Volpe, I would be more than happy for you to propose the amendment.
4 p.m.
Liberal
4 p.m.
Conservative
4 p.m.
Liberal
Joe Volpe Eglinton—Lawrence, ON
I think, Mr. Chairman, you'll find that what the parliamentary secretary may want to do and we may want to think about in dealing with this amendment, once the issue of the negatived clause 2 is dealt with later on.... One can only deal with the regulations once the authority for them has been established, and that won't be established until the negative on clause 2 is dealt with.
4 p.m.
Conservative
4 p.m.
Conservative
Brian Jean Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
That's not my understanding, Mr. Chair, but as I said, I apologize. I'm having a little bit of a problem working through amendment G-3. My understanding is that it requires a consistency of safety-related defects, but I....