Evidence of meeting #113 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was line.

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MPs speaking

Also speaking

Jean-Sébastien Rochon  Counsel, Department of Justice
Christine Loth-Bown  Vice-President, Policy Development Sector, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
Philippe Méla  Legislative Clerk
Brent Parker  Director, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Division, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
Jeff Labonté  Assistant Deputy Minister, Major Projects Management Office, Department of Natural Resources

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Given that this is on the table for discussion and we're voting on it, I'd like to not have to go back to it. I'd like to have unanimous consent of the committee to go to those other amendments and make that vote for the subamendments.

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Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC

It's just the subamendment.

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The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

It's the subamendment to those, yes.

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12:50 p.m.

Conservative

Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC

Right, and then we come back to them down the road. Is that right?

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The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

What I am being told is that to do it we need to go to those clauses, then move the subamendments and then move the clauses. If we're going to do it, I need consent to be able to do that. You can't just do the subamendment and let it sit. You have to do the clause.

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12:50 p.m.

Conservative

Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC

What are you going to do, then?

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The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

What I want to do is go to LIB-33 at this point and do the subamendment that's being proposed right here, and then we'll have to vote on that amendment.

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Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

Okay, I have an amendment I want to do from the floor for line 8, which goes before line 15.

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The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

I know. What we're asking is to have unanimous consent to put this in the bill properly so that it's not just sitting in one place, but being done in all places. And then we'll come back to the regular progression of the clause.

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Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

No, because my amendment is different, and mine should come first because it's line 8. This is a—

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The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Okay, is your amendment affecting LIB-33?

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Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

No.

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The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

So I'm coming back to yours. We're just trying to go to LIB-33 and deal with that one and LIB-76, so that there is consistency in the bill of how we're doing this.

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Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

Okay, so if we're just doing LIB-33—

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The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

—and LIB-76.

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Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

But not if we're doing the other ones.

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The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

We're coming back.

As long as I have agreement, we're going to go to LIB-33, please, so turn in your books to LIB-33, which is on page 153. We will be coming back to those others. They're not being denied a hearing. I'm just trying to make sure there is consistency here.

We have LIB-33, and Mike has put a subamendment to LIB-33 on the floor, which is exactly the same as what we did for LIB-30.

Is everybody with me?

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Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

It's not making sense to me what the provision says.

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The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Mike, do you want to bring LIB-33 on the floor?

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Mike Bossio Liberal Hastings—Lennox and Addington, ON

Once again—

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Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

It doesn't make sense the way it's drafted.

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The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Linda, are you not sure what we're trying to do?

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Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

I am looking at what LIB-33 says.

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The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Okay, but first—

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Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

“After line 15 on page 33”; it makes no sense what's being proposed.

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