Okay.
Evidence of meeting #1 for Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was going.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #1 for Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was going.
A recording is available from Parliament.
1:45 p.m.
Liberal
Darren Fisher Liberal Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS
We're never going to get this all done, if we don't give the chair a little bit of leeway to make these decisions.
1:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
I think it's a reasonable suggestion. I didn't want anybody to think I was cutting the CEPA review off too fast. If you're all comfortable with it, we'll take a shot at seeing whether we can get witnesses for the sustainable development strategy.
I need your help, so by Friday of this week, can you please, all of you, identify who you believe would be good to have in front of us for these four topics?
Let's prioritize them, please. Don't just give us a vague list. Can you say, I think we should definitely have this person and this person, and here are some extra ones we think might be helpful?
At the following meeting, not next week but the week after, we'll come back and hopefully have a better handle on the witness list. We can try to schedule more time, and then, taking into account what you have all said today, we'll try to come up with another approach to making sure that all four of these at least are addressed in some form in this session, before the summer.
Is that fair?
1:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
The four that we're talking about are CEPA, the sustainable development strategy—and I need that really soon, because we're going to try to get that done quickly—the federal protected areas review, and the one we did on the 4th, which is the climate change one.
In terms of agreement on the witnesses we're going to have on the 22nd, are we all okay with my doing it via phone or Internet? We won't have a chance to meet again as a subcommittee in preparation for what we're going to bring forward on the 22nd.
1:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Well, we had the commissioner already come in to talk to us, and I know she would like to come back to tell us how she thinks we can put more teeth in it.
1:50 p.m.
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
That may be; I'm not sure. She tends to stay away from policy recommendations, as a rule. If she's indicated that, then maybe; it would be great.
1:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
I'll pursue it and I'll let everybody know via email.
Are you all okay with our doing this on an email basis?
1:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay.
Thank you very much, everyone, for your time. Now we have to run to question period.
This meeting is adjourned.
