Evidence of meeting #5 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 going.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
Mark Gerretsen Liberal Kingston and the Islands, ON
I believe that's what Mr. Fast was saying earlier, which is that those two should go concurrently. He is absolutely right. You might not be able to get the witnesses on a certain day, so that day you can move forward with the other one.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
It's being suggested that we could have Tuesday for one and Thursday for the other. We can try to structure it and see how it works out. It may or may not work out depending on witnesses, but we could try to work on that kind of format.
Liberal
Mike Bossio Liberal Hastings—Lennox and Addington, ON
I don't have a problem with the concurrency, but I would like the priority to be on the CEPA side. I'd rather not say one day is one and one day is the other. I'd like the CEPA witnesses to be contacted first and then move concurrently with the other one. When we did this, that was just the first one that was written. It wasn't a priority when we were writing this out. It just happened when we got to sitting down and writing out the motion. I apologize for that misunderstanding. If we park the third one, that's fine. I can live with that. But I really want CEPA to be the one that is prioritized in that concurrency.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
We'll work out the details of witnesses and moving them forward at the subcommittee meeting, but I think I'm hearing a consensus on concurrence on one and two, then three, and then four. That's what I'm hearing around the table. Does anybody else want to say anything before we call the vote?
The motion is that we're going to have concurrent studies on items one and two, which are the federally protected areas and CEPA. We will then do the Federal Sustainable Development Act as a third priority item for the committee, and then clean tech and innovation as the fourth priority.
Liberal
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Of course, that's the overarching issue.
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Well done, everybody, and we did it in time. Good work.
Oh, wait, I have some issues. On Tuesday, do we have any proposals for the witness list, or are we going to try to do that at the subcommittee meeting we're trying to organize on the Monday?
Liberal
Mike Bossio Liberal Hastings—Lennox and Addington, ON
[Inaudible—Editor] everybody here for Tuesday?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
We're doing the subcommittee call as a conference call. We already put the meeting notice out to everybody. I think the clerk is getting nervous because we want to make sure we have things to do at our meeting on Tuesday. But we'll work on that in the subcommittee, if that's okay with everybody, unless you have something right now that you want to suggest.
Liberal
Mark Gerretsen Liberal Kingston and the Islands, ON
I have a point of order. Will it be recorded in the minutes that our prioritization was carried unanimously?
Liberal
William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC
I was going to suggest that the first thing, if you're going to do a CEPA review, should be to have the department come in and give an overview.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay, how does everybody feel about that? On the Tuesday we do an overview of CEPA?
Liberal
William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC
We'll have the departmental officials coming in and talking about it.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Is that a good start? Then we'll work on it in our subcommittee meeting, what we do for the next two weeks, not next week but the next two weeks after that.
Liberal
