Agriculture Committee on Oct. 16th, 2023

Evidence of meeting #75 for Agriculture and Agri-Food in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-275

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Clerk Ms. Émilie Thivierge

Joseph Melaschenko Senior Counsel, Agriculture and Food Inspection Legal Services, Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Mary Jane Ireland Executive Director, Animal Health Directorate, Chief Veterinary Officer for Canada, Canadian Food Inspection Agency

6:15 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

6:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Kody Blois

On division, if we want, Mr. MacGregor.

6:15 p.m.

NDP

Alistair MacGregor NDP Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, BC

[Inaudible—Editor]

6:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Kody Blois

There you go.

Shall the bill as amended carry?

6:15 p.m.

NDP

Alistair MacGregor NDP Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, BC

I'd like a recorded vote on that.

6:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Kody Blois

Okay.

Colleagues, we are voting on the bill as amended through all the different processes. I can give you a minute to reflect on that if you'd like, but we've gone through clause 1 and clause 2 as amended.

I will now ask the clerk to call a recorded vote.

(Bill C-275 as amended agreed to: yeas 8; nays 3)

Shall the chair report the bill as amended to the House? This should be relatively straightforward.

6:15 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

6:15 p.m.

An hon. member

On division.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Kody Blois

Shall the committee order a reprint of the bill as amended for use of the House at report stage? Of course, this is procedural. I think we can all agree on that.

6:15 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

6:15 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Kody Blois

Colleagues, that was great work today. There was obviously a lot of nuance and there were a lot of different amendments, so I appreciate....

First, let me say thank you to our witnesses for joining us here today.

I want to thank our procedural clerks, who were able to join.

To our translation team, and to our team who is normally here, thank you.

Just to give a quick sense of what we're going to be doing on Thursday, colleagues, the first hour is going to be consideration of the third version of the environmental report, “Environmental Contribution of Agriculture”. I have then reserved the second hour for committee business. There are a number of motions that have been presented, and different ideas, so we will litigate that on Thursday and decide our pathway forward as a committee.

Thank you so much. We'll see you Thursday.

The meeting is adjourned.