Environment Committee on June 2nd, 2008

[John Godfrey, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

Oh, have we voted? Sorry.

[Mark Warawa, Conservative, Langley, BC]

We voted that the schedule be repealed, and then we had the new schedule.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

I understand you're going to add an amendment to add a new schedule--

[John Godfrey, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

That's correct.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

--but we're not quite there yet.

[John Godfrey, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

All right. So we need to repeal.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

We've already repealed.

[John Godfrey, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

The first thing we need to do is.... Do we need to re-repeal the schedule?

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

The committee voted to appeal a schedule that's in the Auditor General Act.

[John Godfrey, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

Okay.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

This is the schedule we're voting on.

[John Godfrey, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

We're going to repeal that. We have L-23.1 on page 46.1, which simply says, “The schedule to the Act is repealed.”

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

That's the Auditor General Act. The schedule we have in the act as printed is what we're voting on.

[John Godfrey, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

That needs to be replaced by L-25.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

We need to vote to get rid of this schedule and then we need a new amendment to add the new schedule, which is L-25. So we're voting to remove the printed schedule.

(Schedule negatived)

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

Now we will introduce L-25 on page 49. It's a new schedule 2. I think everybody has a copy of that.

[John Godfrey, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

These are the various agencies that were identified by orders in council, after the passage of the Auditor General Act, as being subject to sustainable development strategy reports.

(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

(On clause 1--Short title)

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

We are now on page 3, amendment G-2.

Mr. Warawa.

[Mark Warawa, Conservative, Langley, BC]

If I remember correctly, this is to change the name of the act from “National” to “Federal”, to be consistent with the rest of the bill.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

Does everybody follow that? We used the term “Federal” throughout the other parts of the bill.

(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

(Clause 1 as amended agreed to)

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

We have G-1 for the long title.

You have an amendment as well.

[Mark Warawa, Conservative, Langley, BC]

Yes. It again changes it from “National” to “Federal”.

[John Godfrey, Liberal, Don Valley West, ON]

We have G-1.1 and G-1. They're different. We have today's version, which I like.

[Mark Warawa, Conservative, Langley, BC]

It's G-1.1.

[The Chair, Conservative, Bob Mills]

Are you happy with that? Will you remove your amendment?