Evidence of meeting #22 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 amendment.
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Bloc
Bernard Bigras Bloc Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC
That's what I just said.
Subclause 27(2.1) of Bill C-30, on page 27, reads as follows:
Despite subsection (2), every person who fails to remit a tradeable unit to the Minister, and in so doing commits an offence [...]
So having regard to the decisions we've made concerning the Green Investment Bank of Canada, these units would no longer be remitted to the minister as was initially the case. They would be remitted instead to the agency we have created, that is to say the Green Investment Bank of Canada.
For the moment, however, amendment BQ-14 is designed to delete the reference to the minister. Later, amendment BQ-15 will state that these units will be remitted to an independent agency.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Laurie Hawn
There are a couple of points before we move on.
The bells obviously have just started to ring, and we had a question about whether we were going to carry on tonight after the bells. We will suspend discussion on this for a second and bring up that administrative matter.
Do you have any quick input on that, Mr. Cullen?
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
Yes, we've been pushing for a pretty aggressive schedule. We understand that the parliamentary secretary for the environment has commitments in the House this evening. We've been moving at a relatively brisk pace. We're also casting forward to what's remaining for us and we think today we were able to get through much of the substantive conversations around targets and some of the emissions trading issues. We would suggest that if there's a will of the committee to continue on in that relatively urgent pattern, then with respect to the duties—and I believe a Liberal member has some as well—we'd not meet tonight and suspend the meeting until tomorrow, just after caucuses have met.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Laurie Hawn
My information is to adjourn at this point.
The meeting is adjourned.