Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) Committee on Dec. 14th, 2006

Evidence of meeting #1 for Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Clerk of the Committee

12:05 p.m.

Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC

I was just going to mention that the timing of the environment committee is Tuesday and Thursday, I believe from eleven o'clock to one o'clock. Maybe we could discuss having our first meeting on the Monday afternoon, or was that in conflict with the transport committee?

12:05 p.m.

Conservative

Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB

On Monday afternoon there is a transport conflict. Monday morning would be fine.

12:05 p.m.

Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC

Maybe the clerk and you, Mr. Chair, can have the discretion of setting a time. We're tentatively setting January 29, but if that's not going to work, you can let us know when it will be. We can be flexible.

12:05 p.m.

Conservative

Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB

The first meeting can certainly be Tuesday morning. It doesn't seem to be a conflict for anybody here.

12:05 p.m.

Liberal

John Godfrey Liberal Don Valley West, ON

I think this is management by committee of the whole, and it's very ineffective. What I'm going to suggest is that we notionally think about Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 to 11, because then the environment committee would just segue. It would be four hours of meetings for everybody, but at least there's a rationale.

Let's let folks sort that out. I don't think we should be doing this in committee of the whole.

12:05 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Laurie Hawn

Okay.

The other question is about televising of meetings. From the comments, we want this to be a process open to Canadians. Probably there'll be a desire from outside this room to have it televised anyway, so we'll probably go in that direction.

Are there any other items of business?

Okay. I want to thank everybody for their mostly Christmas spirit. This is going to be a challenge. It's going to be fun, in a hard-working kind of way. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to coming out at the end with something we can all be proud of.

Thank you for your attendance and input at this meeting, and have a Merry Christmas.