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Evidence of meeting #2 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 #2 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.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
These are going to be ongoing. I think maybe that's what we needed to get on the table here, that it's not all going to be done by the end of June. We'll hopefully have a report back by June 24 on the FSDS and, I think, improvements to the act. Other than that, it will be ongoing in terms of the work we're trying to do on the other three elements, or at least two of the elements. I'm going to see if I can get the climate change one on.
I'm also working with other committees, such as the innovation and technology group, to see if we can find a way for them to put an environment lens on the work they're doing, and how we may be able to do that. We're exploring ways that committees can work together on initiatives that we may have brought forward but they are actually working on as well, and how we can do that. I think the fisheries committee also has that work. We're going to see how we can make committees work together on common goals.
Let's just go back to the proposal. I'm looking at the 12th and 14th for sure, and potentially the 19th, to finish our deliberations for drafting instructions on the federal sustainability development strategy and act. On the 21st, 3rd, 5th, and 10th for sure, we will have witnesses on the federally protected areas review. That leaves us the 12th, the 17th, and the 19th.
That gives us four sessions for witnesses on the protected areas. All right? Do we feel comfortable on that?
The 12th, the 17th, and the 19th, we are still.... We only had one day that we listened to the CEPA review. We need to move the CEPA review along, so I was looking at that, potentially, with CEPA moving along, so they're all moving along together.
Yes, Mr. Eglinski.
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
Madam Chair, I'd like to leave the 12th for federal protection, because all the rest of the meetings have been dragging on and taking more time than we thought. I really think we should leave those four sessions in the first part of May for federal protection, and then move on the 17th.
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
No, I realize that, but we might do part on the 19th. If we do that, then we can move ahead. If we don't....
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
I'm open to that. Does anybody have an issue with that? Okay.
So we go the 21st, 3rd, 5th, 10th, and 12th for the protected areas. Then we move back to CEPA for the 17th and the 19th.
I know that on the 31st we have the report of the commissioner coming back to us. That's May 31, right?
Conservative
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
She said the last week of May, so I believe it'll be there.
June 2, we need to then go line by line through our review that's coming. We're going to have a report back from our analysts that will need to be reviewed before we send it on, obviously. We'll have to work at that. That will be on June 2.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
On FSDS and FSDA. Okay?
Then we have the 7th, the 9th, the 14th, and the 16th of June. This is where I felt we could bring forward climate change. That isn't the way we had planned to go. We had planned to finish the others and then move on to the fourth one. But I'm open, for the 7th, the 9th, and the 14th, to either moving forward with a report approach for the federal protected areas or CEPA, or to opening ourselves up to looking at that fourth item.
I am completely open to the committee on how you want to move forward on this.
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
We're running out of time. Can we leave that for another meeting to give us time for a little more thought?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
I can.
So we'll move up to June and I'll get that settled. Then we'll bring that forward for committee. Will we leave that open?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
What he's saying is that we're running out of time and he wants to think about it. We'll get back and discuss the June approach—other than the June 2 one—on what we're going to do.
I don't think we need to do it now, but we could probably do it in early April. I think at our next subcommittee meeting I'd like to go through our witnesses and get it hammered down what we're going to do for the next two months in witnesses. Then, I think, based on that, we could probably open up what we're going to do in June. We don't want to leave it too late because we need to know.
Can I get agreement on that? For the meetings on the 12th and the 14th, can the chair select the witnesses? Can I work with the staff here? I think we've done okay so far in getting the right people. Would it be okay with you if we go through the list that everybody brought forward and pick some people for those? We need to invite those witnesses before we get back and have another meeting.
Are you all right with that?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay. I'm being given a lot of advice here on who the good people are. We will make sure that we get people from all of the suggestions around the table.
We'll have our next subcommittee meeting on the 12th, and we can get back to discussing what we're going to do in June.
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
I'd like to leave May 19 open, so we can put our recommendations in for our—
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
We have to pass this agenda at some point, this calendar, right?