Evidence of meeting #132 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 million.
A recording is available from Parliament.
4:35 p.m.
Mr. John Aldag (Cloverdale—Langley City, Lib.)
Yes. Just give me one second to explain.
Then we will deal with the Parks Canada portion of the supplementary estimates (A) next Tuesday. That's the flow that—
4:35 p.m.
Edmonton—Wetaskiwin, CPC
What is the date by which these have to be reported back?
4:35 p.m.
Mr. John Aldag (Cloverdale—Langley City, Lib.)
It's a floating deadline. The report back has to happen by the final opposition day in this session. We've had six of seven already. We don't know when that seventh one will be, but in all likelihood, given where we're at in the schedule, we're anticipating that it will be next week.
4:35 p.m.
Edmonton—Wetaskiwin, CPC
It has to be by when? When is the time slot that it has to be determined by?
4:35 p.m.
Mr. John Aldag (Cloverdale—Langley City, Lib.)
We went to the minister's office and we gave her four hearings. The end of November was when we were looking at likely needing to have this done. That is the time frame that we asked for her availability, and we were told that this month she was not available.
4:35 p.m.
Edmonton—Wetaskiwin, CPC
But we only pitched the times that we have meetings scheduled as opportunities.
4:35 p.m.
Edmonton—Wetaskiwin, CPC
I would suggest that as a committee—this is the environment minister—we should be prepared to meet at any time, if she has any availability between, say, now and December 3, whenever it fits into her schedule, 24-7. I don't care. I'll come here at two in the morning if that's the only window she has in her schedule.
It's a pretty significant department. We have this pretty significant role, and she has a pretty significant position. I think it's incumbent upon us as the environment committee to to make ourselves available more, beyond just the four two-hour windows. Surely at some point between now and the end of the month, or whatever date we pick, she'll be able to make herself available to the environment committee of the House of Commons to meet for a couple of hours.
4:40 p.m.
Liberal
Darren Fisher Liberal Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS
She's met with us six times. She makes herself very available to this committee.
4:40 p.m.
Mr. John Aldag (Cloverdale—Langley City, Lib.)
At this point, it's only a point of order. We have no speaking list.
Is it a point of order?
4:40 p.m.
Mark Warawa Langley—Aldergrove, CPC
I'd like to speak to the point of order that's on the table.
4:40 p.m.
Liberal
Darren Fisher Liberal Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS
I don't think the point of order is open to debate.
4:40 p.m.
Mr. John Aldag (Cloverdale—Langley City, Lib.)
Do you have a point of order, Mr. Warawa?
4:40 p.m.
Langley—Aldergrove, CPC
I request to speak to the point of order, so I'm the next person on the list.
4:40 p.m.
Mr. John Aldag (Cloverdale—Langley City, Lib.)
You can raise a point of order. You can't speak to a point of order. Is that correct?
We seem to be moving into debate, and perhaps into the motion we had about having the minister come.
4:40 p.m.
Conservative
