Evidence of meeting #70 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 municipalities.
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NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
—comment briefly, I think that's a good idea, but I noted in reading the proceedings of the last time these ladies and gentlemen were here, that Mr. Bossio said that he wanted to ask questions about climate change because we were about to study that, and that has fallen off the table.
That's why I was suggesting that maybe—
NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
Well, I'm saying, okay, we've had them back a second time, and we still haven't studied climate change. If he were here, he might say, “Well, maybe I will ask those questions.”
I think this is great, but I still stand with what the commissioner said. We're just touching the tip of the iceberg—
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
As we get closer to a year out, we'll look at it and see whether we want to do it in separate meetings.
Does anybody want to move that we would have them come back in a year? Do we need to...? All in favour?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay. That sounds good, so we'll do that.
Thank you very much for all your time and for being patient with us as we were a bit late today.
We'll all suspend for a few minutes, and then we'll go into closed.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
All right. We have a couple of things to do in terms of committee business.
We potentially have a meeting on Wednesday. We don't know what the schedule of the House is. We may or may not need it. I didn't want to cancel it. We thought we were going to have Finance here. They are not able to meet with us on Wednesday, so if they're not coming, I don't think we have a lot to discuss unless we want to get started on our next report, which we could try to do.
We wouldn't have witnesses, but we might be able to have Van Loan come in front of us. That's an option. I wanted to put it in front of the committee. I never like to waste any time if we have it, but it's completely at the committee's pleasure.
I'll open it to discussion. Would you like to start or what?
We'll start with Jim and then go to Linda.
Go ahead.
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
Madam Chair, I think if we're here Wednesday, I would like us to—
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
I would like to start an informal discussion with John over our proposed heritage things. I think there are a lot of things to discuss. It's going to be a short meeting anyway. We're not going to get a lot accomplished, but I think if we had an in-depth discussion of where we're going to go and what our ideas are and stuff like that, I think it would be very informative when we come back and start.
Conservative
Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB
I think it's important to Canada Our heritage is important to a lot of people. It would give us an opportunity to have an impromptu discussion.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay. That's a spot.
You do know that there's a proposal on the table. What we haven't heard yet and haven't got back are your suggestions of who you'd like to have as witnesses. We have John's suggestions, and if you do have some other ideas, we need to get them in so that we can start incorporating them.
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