Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) Committee on Feb. 13th, 2007

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

I want to clarify that if the witnesses can provide us with any amendments or suggestions for this piece of legislation that will help us in our work, that will be very helpful.

[The Chair, Conservative, Laurie Hawn]

Before we finish, I want to point out that the Clean Air Foundation cannot be with us on Thursday. We will be hearing from Environmental Defence; Louis Drouin from Montreal Public Health; the David Suzuki Foundation; and Dee Parkinson-Marcoux, to be confirmed.

Mr. Warawa.

[Mark Warawa, Conservative, Langley, BC]

Since this appears to be an important witness, is there another date that would be opportune for that witness?

[The Chair, Conservative, Laurie Hawn]

We have some unused dates in our quiver if we need them, but that would be up to the committee.

[The Clerk of the Committee, Mr. Chad Mariage]

She was invited to speak on air pollution, and there are no other meetings scheduled on that topic. It's up to the committee to schedule them.

[Brian Jean, Conservative, Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB]

I am concerned. I know we're trying to move this legislation forward, but it's an important piece of legislation and we are missing some witnesses. We heard today that they received only three days' notice, which is understandable in the circumstances. I suggest we try to fit in some more days or bring them back with other witnesses to hear them if we have openings to do so. I think it's very important--whoever we've missed from the list, no matter which party suggested them.

[The Chair, Conservative, Laurie Hawn]

Can I suggest we refer that to the subcommittee? Okay.

Mr. McGuinty.

[David McGuinty, Liberal, Ottawa South, ON]

Did we agree that we would re-invite the participant from Washington, and the PEW climate change fund?

[The Chair, Conservative, Laurie Hawn]

The clerk has a comment on that.

[The Clerk]

Pursuant to the discussion this morning, I re-extended the invitation to PEW and Ms. Arroyo. PEW indicated that she would be the best person to appear for our purposes here, but it would depend on her family circumstances. We've invited her to come back on the emissions trading day, which is February 27. That will give her the most amount of time to get things in order.

[The Chair, Conservative, Laurie Hawn]

Okay. So we will get the subcommittee together again to talk about the others.

Once again, thank you very much to the witnesses for appearing. We really appreciate your time.

Mr. Maybee.

[Kenneth Maybee]

We talked about producing a brief, designed at a layperson's level, on the connection between climate change, air quality, and respiratory health. If you are interested, we can forward that. It's a very complex sort of thing, and the document we want to produce could make the connections far easier for a layperson.

[The Chair, Conservative, Laurie Hawn]

Anything like that would be helpful.

[Kenneth Maybee]

We'll prepare that and forward it.

I'd like to remind you that when you can't breathe, nothing else matters.

[The Chair, Conservative, Laurie Hawn]

I'm reminded.

Thank you very much, everyone.

This meeting is adjourned.