Evidence of meeting #32 for Agriculture and Agri-Food in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
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Liberal
Conservative
Conservative
Randy Hoback Conservative Prince Albert, SK
Again it comes back to hypocrisy. They don't want to waste meetings, yet they bring in witnesses, and they're basically saying they're not going to listen to them. Well, that's a waste of time. They've already told Mr. Atamanenko they're going to vote against his legislation.
So what will we be doing for the next five or seven meetings? We'll be wasting everybody's time. It's frustrating.
André, you're 100% right that we have not done farmers a service today; we've done them a disservice. We have not done them a service moving forward, because we're entertaining something where our minds are already made up.
Conservative
Pierre Lemieux Conservative Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
I just want to say that it's unfortunate. I actually disagree with some of what Mr. Bellavance says. Today's debate was important because it was about the continued confusion that's being injected into the agricultural sector by this bill.
Today we could have had witnesses here on the bill, but Mr. Atamanenko and his opposition colleagues insist on injecting other orders of business that obstruct continuing with the bill. So I take exception to what Mr. Bellavance has said. It's unfortunate that the Liberals have sided to continue this bill and prolong the agony in the agricultural sector.
October 7th, 2010 / 10:45 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Larry Miller
All in favour of Mr. Storseth's motion to make the meeting of October 5 public?
Conservative
