Environment Committee on May 3rd, 2007

Evidence of meeting #55 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-307, An Act to prohibit the use of benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP) and di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) in certain products and to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Sue Milburn-Hopwood Director, Risk Management Bureau, Department of Health

Mike MacPherson Procedural Clerk

Jean-Sébastien Rochon Counsel, Department of Justice

Supriya Sharma Associate Director General, Therapeutic Products Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch, Department of Health

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Liberal

Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS

You're urging us to defeat it.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

I have no opinion.

(Clause 4 negatived)

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Now we can go to the title, can we not? The short title.

We had a government amendment to the short title. It is inadmissible, so I rule it inadmissible.

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Liberal

David McGuinty Liberal Ottawa South, ON

What is the title?

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Can you deal with that, Mark? You were adding the words....

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Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC

I have listed the same thing. There's no change.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

You were trying to delete the wording before. It goes back to where we were on Tuesday.

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Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC

I have “This Act may be cited as the Phthalate Control Act”, which is the same as we had listed originally.

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Liberal

Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS

That's a good reason for it to be out of order, Mr. Chair.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Okay. So you're not going to move that, then, Mr. Warawa?

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Conservative

Maurice Vellacott Conservative Saskatoon—Wanuskewin, SK

What is it? What's the difference?

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

There isn't. It's already there.

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Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC

Then I'll withdraw and you can call the question, “Shall it stand?”

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Exactly.

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Liberal

Geoff Regan Liberal Halifax West, NS

Do we have to move clause 1 or are you just asking?

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

I'm just asking, I guess.

(Clause 1 agreed to)

Okay, we have a short title.

Now there are a few amendments that we need to look at here.

Mr. Warawa.

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Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC

We're almost there.

The long title that we proposed originally is to “prohibit” the use of BBP, DBP, and DEHP. We were proposing, instead of “prohibit”, “respecting”, and the bill then guides how to manage those phthalates. So we're “respecting” as opposed to “prohibiting”. We think that's a little bit more accurate wording, so that's what we're proposing.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

So we're looking at amendments G-1 and G-1.1, and we're ultimately going to look at amendments NDP-0.1 and NDP-1.2.

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Conservative

Mark Warawa Conservative Langley, BC

They're the same, other than that we're using the word “respecting” as opposed to “prohibiting”.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Bob Mills

Amendments G-1 and G-1.1 are exactly the same.