International Trade committee  The motion would read: That the Standing Committee on International Trade conduct extensive hearings on the implications of the Canada-Korea bilateral agreement currently being negotiated, specifically hearing testimony from a wide variety of sectors and diverse regions of Canada, and that the committee investigate alternative ways to build and strengthen Canada's trade relationship with Korea, and that the committee report this to the House.

International Trade committee  That wasn't in the original motion.

International Trade committee  Okay, “from a wide range of sectors”.

International Trade committee  You said you had kept “diverse regions”.

International Trade committee  Yes,“and diverse regions of Canada, and that the committee investigate alternative”--

International Trade committee  Okay: “and that the committee report to the House”. You're moving that part as well?

International Trade committee  We have: That the Standing Committee on International Trade conduct extensive hearings on the implications of the Canada-Korea bilateral agreement currently being negotiated, specifically hearing testimony from a wide variety of sectors and diverse regions of Canada And the rest is the same.

International Trade committee  If I understand Mr. Pallister correctly, the motion would read as follows: That the Standing Committee on International Trade conduct extensive hearings on the implications of the Canada-Korea bilateral agreement currently being negotiated, specifically hearing testimony on a wide range of manufacturing sectors

International Trade committee  I can read the passage that deals with supplementary reports from the book if you like. I'll just read this passage. It might be able to clarify it in the other committee. It's just a quick paragraph. A committee report reflects the opinion of the committee and not that of the individual members.

International Trade committee  The amended motion reads: That every party shall have the right to attach, as an annex, a dissenting or supplementary opinion on any report to be presented to the House of Commons by the committee; and that this dissenting or supplementary opinion shall be submitted to the clerk of the committee within 72 hours of the passing of the report by the committee in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.

International Trade committee  Standing Order 108(1), which is the standing order that's referred to, essentially just explains that a committee has the power, if it so chooses, to append dissenting or complementary opinions to any report it chooses. So it's not binding. There's no standing order that governs this per se.

International Trade committee  That was the motion that was adopted in the last session. The standing order simply says that the committee shall be...empowered...to report from time to time and to print a brief appendix to any report, after the signature of the chair, containing such opinions or recommendations, dissenting from the report or supplementary to it, as may be proposed by committee members So it just gives the committee the right to do it if it wants to do it.

International Trade committee  Essentially the difference, Mr. Chair, is that a dissenting opinion essentially differentiates from what the committee has decided on, and a supplementary opinion is essentially just going a little bit further, not necessarily disagreeing with what's in the report, but adding certain elements to a report.

International Trade committee  They're established by the liaison committee.

International Trade committee  Right.