Evidence of meeting #42 for Agriculture and Agri-Food in the 39th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
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Conservative
Conservative
Brian Storseth Conservative Westlock—St. Paul, AB
Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
As we are entertaining motions outside the relevance of what we were originally brought here for, I would also like to move a motion for the committee to entertain. The committee doesn't have to do it now, but I will be giving 48 hours' notice before this meeting ends and we move on to the other one. I think that's procedurally the correct manner in which to go about it.
My motion is that the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food explore the differences between the Canadian Wheat Board and the Informa Economics study to investigate the real costs of the Wheat Board to western Canadian farmers.
This is a discussion that I think is critically important to our western Canadian farmers, who it's been shown are being shorted in the neighbourhood of about $620 million a year, according to this study. I'd be more than happy to have this debate with Mr. Easter in the fall.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative James Bezan
Okay, that's just 48 hours' notice. We're not debating it; it's just a motion on the table.
With that, I'm going to adjourn the meeting. We have to take a bit of a time-out here for some technical purposes, and then we'll call in the witnesses. It's going to be about a five-minute break, guys and gals.
The meeting is adjourned.