Agriculture Committee on April 28th, 2015

[The Chair, Conservative, Bev Shipley]

Bill C-48.

[Mark Eyking, Liberal, Sydney—Victoria, NS]

Yes, that's what it is.

Gerald, can you give us a heads-up on what's going on there this spring?

[The Chair, Conservative, Bev Shipley]

Mr. Keddy.

[Gerald Keddy, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margaret's, NS]

We put it through to the House leaders. My understanding is that it's being held up by.... I don't know how to say it.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bev Shipley]

It has come across an interprovincial barrier.

[Gerald Keddy, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margaret's, NS]

My understanding is that what we had discussed here and what we had talked about, quite frankly, was that we would try to move it fairly quickly through second reading, that we wouldn't delay the bill, and that we would take a lot of time to study it at committee and a lot of time for third reading. Apparently, that has fallen apart somewhere in the process.

I'm being polite, so I'm not going to point fingers, but we would like to have the bill tabled and we'd like to move it forward, obviously.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bev Shipley]

I think maybe we can continue to work to see if we can get that to happen.

[Mark Eyking, Liberal, Sydney—Victoria, NS]

That's if things happen quickly. We have good open water here for our committee to take it on.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bev Shipley]

Yes. Open water?

[Mark Eyking, Liberal, Sydney—Victoria, NS]

That's an east coast term.

[An hon. member]

I thought there was ice all over.

[Gerald Keddy, Conservative, South Shore—St. Margaret's, NS]

Don't worry. It's all still frozen yet.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bev Shipley]

Thank you very much. We'll see you on Thursday.

The meeting is adjourned.