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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5:35 p.m.
Conservative
5:35 p.m.
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.
5:35 p.m.
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.