Evidence of meeting #3 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 may.
A recording is available from Parliament.
1:25 p.m.
NDP
1:25 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay. Does anybody have anything else they want to say before we agree on that in principle?
April 12th, 2016 / 1:25 p.m.
Liberal
William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC
I share Mr. Cullen's desire to get into the climate change study before the summer. I'd like to be out in my community discussing some of the climate issues that have been brought to bear by witnesses. By the same token, if we press pause on our CEPA discussion on May 19 without doing any drafting, we won't have gotten to anywhere close to a conclusion. We pause on May 19th. We don't do a single thing on it in June. Then we wait until late September to address the most complex piece we're working on. It's going to be hard for members who are not fully seized of that matter to just let it go for a quarter of the year and then come back.
Instead of having four on climate, Mr. Cullen, I'd suggest that we do two and two. I suggest we jettison one of each if the time compression doesn't allow us to do those four.
1:25 p.m.
Liberal
William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC
My suggestion would be that instead doing all four on climate, let's put two on CEPA and then two on climate. This way we're not leaving CEPA alone from May 19 to whenever we resume in October. I'm just concerned about our capacity.
1:25 p.m.
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
I think we're going okay. Why not go three and three, with the strong possibility that the 7th and 9th may disappear?
1:25 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
You're saying that they may be added into opportunity for discussion on either or both of the topics.
1:25 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
You're good? Then I think we have agreement. Let's just make sure I know what we just agreed to.
We are doing protected areas on the 21st, 3rd, 5th, 10th, and 12th. We have CEPA on the 17th and 19th of May. We're going to have the FSDA draft report coming forward on June 31. We're going to do the commissioner's report on May 31st and we are then going to have a potential buffer. We'll leave the 7th and the 9th open for the moment. We need to get a sense, as we're going through May, whether we may need or not need those two sessions.
1:25 p.m.
Liberal
John Aldag Liberal Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
What I heard is that we allocate the 7th and 9th as a ...
1:25 p.m.
Liberal
John Aldag Liberal Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
Yes, start with them and then take them out if we have to.
1:25 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay, so we're going to start with climate on the 7th and the 9th. If we need the time, we'll move the climate later.
1:25 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
We have that flexibility, and it's agreed on. I'm good with that—as long as we can adjust as we see things changing.
We're going to have one more week that will be the climate, and two.... Which ones? Which ones do you want to go for?
1:25 p.m.
Liberal
John Aldag Liberal Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
The 7th and 9th is climate. Do three on climate and then three on CEPA.
1:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
But it won't be three. It will be the 7th, 9th, and 14th on climate, and the 16th and the 23rd. Oh, I forgot the 21st. Sorry, okay, we're done. Parks will be done. We're going to do the report.
1:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
What I'm hearing is that the report on the parks is going to come after the summer break.
1:30 p.m.
Liberal