Evidence of meeting #65 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.)
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
The Chair (Mrs. Deborah Schulte (King—Vaughan, Lib.)) Liberal Deb Schulte
Let's start the meeting.
Jim, may we hear your motion.
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
Madam Chair, my motion is that the committee undertake a study on the supplementary estimates (A), 2017-18.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Whoa. We're still in camera according to the monitor. What's happening?
That's fine. As long as you guys are okay, we'll keep going.
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
Madam Chair, as I said, my motion is that the committee undertake a study of the supplementary estimates (A), 2017-18, and hopefully we'll be able to hold that on the upcoming Monday.
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay. That's unanimous. We're going to do our best to get it done Monday.
On Monday, we're going to do this for an hour. We don't need a technical briefing. Are we going to try to do the whole...?
There's another thing we need to get ready before we rise. John has a proposal so that over the summer we can start getting ready for the.... He would like a chance to present that to us just to make sure that we agree on that plan. Can we do that on Monday?
Would Monday work, John?
Conservative
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
As you are all aware, we have Peter Van Loan, and I was wondering, if John is going to make a presentation, would it be appropriate for me to ask Peter if he might want to come here to give us his concept of what he's looking at so we all understand a little better.
Liberal
John Aldag Liberal Cloverdale—Langley City, BC
No. I have a group that I've been working with to frame the study and come up with a potential witness list. We're meeting on Tuesday, June 6, at 3:30. I can have it the next day. I assume that I can kick it into translation that night. It's not going to take long, so I'd have it on Wednesday.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
What we'll do if we're going to do this is that we're going to do the supplementaries on Monday, if we can. We're going to work towards that.
Did you guys want to take an hour for the supplementaries and then have the other hour for Van Loan? We don't need to brief for the trip anymore, so we'd have Van Loan come and talk. Is that what you wanted to do?
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
I don't think it would take an hour. Let's just leave after that. We'll see what it takes.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay. Well, it's not like we haven't done our bit here to try to make all this happen.
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
Yes. I think these guys would love to be able to leave early anyway.
Liberal
Mark Gerretsen Liberal Kingston and the Islands, ON
The Van Loan bill is going to require.... It's not just him coming to speak. There's also—
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
No. It's just to give an update of what he's looking at on his bill.
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
I'm not even sure what it's all about, I'll tell you honestly.
Liberal
Liberal
Mark Gerretsen Liberal Kingston and the Islands, ON
You would vote in favour of a bill when you didn't know what you were voting on?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
I don't have a problem with having him come in on Monday, as it feeds into John's work that he's doing in preparation for.... After we do the supplementaries, we'd give him half an hour to give us a bit of a summary, and that can feed into John's discussion on the following day.
