Evidence of meeting #89 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 right.
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Conservative
Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC
I have a point of order, Madam Chair.
Ms. May also had some amendments. Was that addressed?
NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
In this amendment, I simply put in a time period. I am totally open, however, to a different time period.
When the commissioner appeared before us on Tuesday, she was very clear that she is struggling with the number of entities she has to review. All of them come in at different times and are prepared in different ways with different frameworks. She said it would be immeasurably helpful to her if all entities had to submit their strategies on the same date.
Right now they can submit them any time within a year, so I am proposing that we amend that clause to give a specified time after the FSDS is tabled in Parliament for when the entities have to submit their strategies. I am totally open to any reasonable time period one might want to put in. I put in six months, but it could be 12 months or eight months. It's whatever people think is reasonable.
She was clear in her testimony that she would like to have the law changed to require all entities to submit their strategies by the same date so that she could compare them.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
I'm not sure that your amendment actually does what you're talking about. I hear you, but what I hear is not what it meant to me when I read it. There's a way to do it differently, but that isn't what this says.
NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
It says it's any time within a year after the FSDS is tabled—
Conservative
Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC
This says within six months. It means any time within the six months.
Liberal
NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
How else would you word it?
I've got another way to word it.
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
I was suggesting that what you've proposed here doesn't meet what I thought the commissioner was asking for. She was asking for—
Liberal
