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.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Eric Gagné  Director General, Science and Technology Branch, Department of the Environment
Robert Judge  Director, Sectoral Policy, Office of Infrastructure of Canada
James Van Loon  Director General, Consumer Product Safety Directorate, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Department of Health
Lori MacDonald  Assistant Deputy Minister, Emergency Management and Programs Branch, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
Laura Di Paolo  Director General, Program Integration, Office of Infrastructure of Canada
Bogdan Makuc  Director, Program Integration, Office of Infrastructure of Canada
Philip Rizcallah  Director, Building Regulations, National Research Council of Canada
Tim Williams  Committee Researcher

5 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Go ahead.

5 p.m.

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—

5 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

It hasn't. Let's—

June 19th, 2017 / 5 p.m.

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—

5 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Yes.

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NDP

Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

—because we're covering three chapters all at once.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Fair enough.

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NDP

Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB

We might want to rethink how we're going to do it.

5 p.m.

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?

5 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

5 p.m.

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.

5:05 p.m.

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.

5:05 p.m.

Conservative

Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB

Madam Chair, I think if we're here Wednesday, I would like us to—

5:05 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Do something...?

5:05 p.m.

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.

5:05 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

Okay.

5:05 p.m.

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.

5:05 p.m.

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.

5:05 p.m.

Conservative

Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB

I thought we were waiting for something from John.

5:05 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

He gave it out at the last meeting—

5:05 p.m.

Liberal

John Aldag Liberal Cloverdale—Langley City, BC

Yes. We circulated it.

5:05 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

—and we circulated it.

5:05 p.m.

Conservative

Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB

That is right. I have that.

5:05 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte

You have it, so I would like—

5:05 p.m.

Conservative

Jim Eglinski Conservative Yellowhead, AB

Okay. I will—