Evidence of meeting #46 for Agriculture and Agri-Food in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was farmers.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
We didn't set off until about twenty minutes to.
Mr. Miller, your question?
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Conservative
Larry Miller Conservative Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, ON
At the start of the meeting on Tuesday, Wayne and Paul, your crew indicated that you would go with four if you could. How come—
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Liberal
Wayne Easter Liberal Malpeque, PE
Well, I think we decided that if we can't be absolutely sure we'd have four—and I don't want to get into the situation where we have three there and put you folks in a box—we're better off with three, and we can be sure that we have three there, Larry.
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Conservative
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Liberal
Wayne Easter Liberal Malpeque, PE
It's possible somebody might want to come back in a couple of days, and that's just going to complicate the thing, so let's go with three.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
We're not in camera.
I want to bring up—I think I talked to some of you informally—that there was a request from Newfoundland. The budget is set, the motions have been carried, so it's something we'll have to deal with at a later date.
I think the decision was made to bring them into Truro or bring them into Ottawa.
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Conservative
David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
The problem with the way the schedule is set--Wayne and I talked about this--is that it takes us away from.... It starts at the beginning of the week in eastern Canada and works this way, so it's impossible to add on at the end of it.
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Liberal
Wayne Easter Liberal Malpeque, PE
It's impossible to change now, I think. If it were the end of the week in Prince Edward Island, or at least the Maritimes, and even if a delegation of four of us plus staff would have gone over to Newfoundland on a Friday, I think we could have done it. We're just too late, thinking of that now. And it's nobody's fault; it just would have been better.
I think, James, you need to be able to say to Newfoundland and the Federation of Agriculture that the committee will try to accommodate them another time, and we'll go there—
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Bloc
Roger Gaudet Bloc Montcalm, QC
Mr. Chairman, will you be travelling with the three Conservative members of Parliament, or are there three Conservative members...?
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Conservative
Larry Miller Conservative Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, ON
I guess we will do that Newfoundland thing soon, right after—
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
As soon as is possible. When we're travelling, we can put forward the motions and put everything into place. We don't have the 48 hours' notice to do anything right now.
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Liberal
Wayne Easter Liberal Malpeque, PE
Not a good place to go, for you, these days. I remember Newfoundland—
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Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
I'm going to wish everybody a happy Easter, on that note.
The meeting is adjourned.