Evidence of meeting #28 for Agriculture and Agri-Food in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was emissions.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Aaron Coristine  Chair, Energy, Environment and Climate Change Working Group, Canadian Horticultural Council
Linda Delli Santi  Chair, Greenhouse Vegetable Working Group, Canadian Horticultural Council
Katie Ward  President and Farmer, National Farmers Union
Mike Ammeter  Chair, Canadian Canola Growers Association
Dan Kelly  Chief Financial Officer, Dowler-Karn Limited
Dave Carey  Vice-President, Government and Industry Relations, Canadian Canola Growers Association

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Chair, Canadian Canola Growers Association

Mike Ammeter

That's true.

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NDP

Alistair MacGregor NDP Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, BC

Thank you for that.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan

Thank you, Mr. MacGregor, and thank you, Mr. Ammeter.

This concludes our second panel.

I really want to thank the Canadian Canola Growers Association—Mr. Mike Ammeter and also Mr. Dave Carey—for being here today.

Also Mr. Kelly from Dowler-Karn Limited, thanks for coming in today to share your thoughts on our study.

That will conclude this. I'd like the members to stick around for a few minutes so we can finish a few items of business.

We'll start with Bill C-206. The officials have been invited. They've agreed to do one opening statement for all of them—not each. We have three departments. We have agriculture, environment and I believe we have finance as the third one. They'll have one opening statement and then we can go into the questioning rounds after that.

Hopefully that's agreeable to everyone. I don't know if there are any issues with that. If not, we'll adopt that model. I don't see any opposition.

The next thing we have to do is approve the press release.

I think you've all received a copy of the press release from the processing capacity report. If it's okay with everyone, we'll approve that and we'll release it as soon as we have a tabled report. Are there any comments on the press release? Is it all good with everyone?

Okay, I don't see any comments, so I think we're all good with that.

Finally, we have to approve the budget for Bill C-205. I believe everyone has received a copy of the budget. It's pretty standard practice. The total is $3,350 for that budget. I don't know if we need a motion, but we need consensus to approve the budget.

Are we all okay with the budget? Just show your thumb or wave your hand....

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Liberal

Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON

I'm good, Pat. You can't see me, but I'm here.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Pat Finnigan

You were the one I was most concerned with, so that's great that we heard you.

Okay, the clerk is good with that.

That is all I have, unless there's anything else from the clerk or anyone else. If not, that was a great meeting, guys. We'll see you on Thursday. Thank you and have a good evening.