It has been moved by Mr. Easter. Is there any discussion?
(Motion agreed to)
I believe the motion carries.
Also, we have another motion here, but before I read it out, we had some discussion earlier. In fact, the committee has adopted a steering committee report to do a study on the biotech industry, starting at the end of December, or before we break here.
As part of that discussion with a number of you, it was suggested that we travel, so I had the clerk prepare a motion for today, the basic intent of which would allow her to prepare a budget between now and Tuesday so that we could hopefully pass it on Tuesday, if everybody is in agreement. It would allow us to travel and visit some I'll just say research facilities or something related. Of course, I want to hear some input and some suggestions. We'll try to do all regions of the country. That's the long and short of it. I'm going to read it. Then we'll open it up for discussion and questions. It says:
That the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food authorize certain members of the Committee to travel across Canada during the month of February 2011 as part of the Committee’s study on the status of the Canadian biotechnology sector; and that the clerk of the Committee, in consultation with the Chair--
I should add “and members”
--be instructed to prepare a draft budget for consideration by the Committee as soon as possible.
What I meant by “and members” was that I would like suggestions from you for facilities we should visit. Is there any discussion?
Oh, there's one other thing. It would be nice to have this passed by Tuesday. The clerk found out that there will be a Liaison Committee meeting on Thursday, so we could have this considered at that point.
Mr. Valeriote.