Environment Committee on Dec. 7th, 2017

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

I have no problem agreeing with the first part of what they're saying—

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Okay. We can do it.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

—but I prefer my draft of the replacement. That's what I'm saying.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Okay, just let me make sure. Now I got confused, because I thought we were replacing subsections 9(1) and 9(2) with this in the bill.

[Olivier Champagne]

The bill currently replaces subsection 9(1) and subsection 9(2), and the amendment would add subsection 9(4).

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

You mean of the bill, not the act.

Okay, so let's hear it again, because you got me confused.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

Oh, they say “of the Act”. No wonder.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Okay, go ahead. Let's just say it one more time, because I got confused.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

It's not of the act; it's of the bill.

[Darren Fisher, Liberal, Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS]

Which amendment are we on now? Are we still talking about NDP-5 or—

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

No, you say “the act”; you mean the bill.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

We're doing LIB-2. We are considering Linda's NDP-5 because it was overlapping, and I didn't want her to feel that we stole the option for her to discuss hers, which would happen if we did it.

[Darren Fisher, Liberal, Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS]

Then do we need to change the words from “the act” to “the bill”?

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

This is what I'm just trying to understand.

[Mike Bossio, Liberal, Hastings—Lennox and Addington, ON]

No, the bill is replacing the—

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

We're just going to have a clarification for everybody's benefit.

[Darren Fisher, Liberal, Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS]

I was doing really well till we moved—

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

No, I know. I got confused myself.

Go ahead.

[Olivier Champagne]

Right now in the act, section 9 has four subsections. The bill currently replaces subsections 9(1) and 9(2). The amendment we are considering tries to replace subsection 9(4), which was initially untouched by the bill.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

Say that again. Do you mean of the bill or the act?

[Olivier Champagne]

It's subsection 9(4) of the act.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

They want to delete 9(1) and 9(2) of the bill or the act?

[Olivier Champagne]

The bill replaces subsections 9(1) and 9(2) of the act, and the amendment—

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

The bill proposes that, yes.

[Olivier Champagne]

Yes.