Agriculture Committee on Oct. 8th, 2020

[The Clerk]

Mr. Chair, I'm terribly sorry to interrupt. The meetings are available based on the scheduling agreed to by the whips. I believe next week is very full with a lot of other committee meetings. They are only allowed so many meetings per slot. I think that meetings are called, at least at the start, based on the agreement by the whips.

[The Chair, Liberal, Pat Finnigan]

Okay. We can certainly contact our whips to get into that scheduling, and at the first available time, we can have a subcommittee meeting. We don't know when our next committee meeting will be, so that will be announced and it will be sent to everyone.

Monsieur Perron.

[Yves Perron, Bloc, Berthier—Maskinongé, QC]

How will upcoming meetings work: will they be virtual, in person or hybrid?

[The Clerk]

Do you want me to take that, sir?

[The Chair, Liberal, Pat Finnigan]

Go ahead, Madame Belmore.

[The Clerk]

As per the order that was adopted in the House, the future committee meetings will be hybrid meetings. It will be your discretion as to whether you wish to appear in person in Ottawa in the committee room or whether you wish to appear virtually.

[The Chair, Liberal, Pat Finnigan]

Again, to the clerk's notice, all meetings will be based on the whips' various parties agreeing when our time will be. We don't really control that. However, as soon as they give us a time frame, we'll certainly have the meeting and proceed.

I don't know if there is any other order of business that you want to discuss at this time.

Go ahead, Monsieur Drouin.

[Francis Drouin, Liberal, Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON]

I just wanted to welcome Dave Epp, who's wearing a different hat now. He was with the Canada Foodgrains Bank. I look forward to working with him.

I don't know Mr. Steinley personally, but I look forward to working with him as well.

I just wanted to give them a shout-out and a welcome.

[Kody Blois, Liberal, Kings—Hants, NS]

I'll second that, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Pat Finnigan]

Thank you very much.

I'm certainly happy to have you and your experience in the grain industry, which is part of our discussion for sure.

Thank you, again, Mr. Epp and Mr. Steinley.

Mr. Perron, you have the floor.

[Yves Perron, Bloc, Berthier—Maskinongé, QC]

We got off to a great start, but I wanted to congratulate you on your re-election as chair.

Ms. Rood, congratulations on being elected vice-chair.

I am happy to see everyone back, and I welcome all new committee members. We will get to know each other better.

[The Chair, Liberal, Pat Finnigan]

Thank you, Mr. Perron.

Everyone, we'll see you next time. You will be notified.

Again, work on your motions.

I'm sorry, I missed Ms. Rood.

Go ahead, Ms. Rood.

[Lianne Rood, Conservative, Lambton—Kent—Middlesex, ON]

I just want to echo those comments.

It's great to see everybody back again. I'm really looking forward to working with all of you to do the great work that we've been able to do before. I hope we can continue to do that with our new members as well.

I'm glad to see you all back.

[The Chair, Liberal, Pat Finnigan]

Thank you everyone.

Have a good Thanksgiving weekend.

The meeting is adjourned.