Environment Committee on Dec. 7th, 2017

[Ed Fast, Conservative, Abbotsford, BC]

I have a point of order, Madam Chair.

Ms. May also had some amendments. Was that addressed?

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

They're coming.

[Ed Fast, Conservative, Abbotsford, BC]

All right.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Did you think it was on NDP-8?

[Ed Fast, Conservative, Abbotsford, BC]

No, I didn't suggest—

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Thank you.

[Ed Fast, Conservative, Abbotsford, BC]

Yes.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

It's the same thing somewhere else.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

She has it further on.

[Ed Fast, Conservative, Abbotsford, BC]

Yes.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Okey-dokey. We're on NDP-9.

[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.

[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.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

Right now it says within a year—

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Right

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

It says it's any time within a year after the FSDS is tabled—

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

I know, but if you want it to—

[Ed Fast, Conservative, Abbotsford, BC]

This says within six months. It means any time within the six months.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

It's not really getting to where she wanted it to be.

[Linda Duncan, NDP, Edmonton Strathcona, AB]

How else would you word it?

I've got another way to word it.

[The Chair, Liberal, Deb Schulte]

Who wants to talk to it? Obviously I've started a debate.

[Mark Gerretsen, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

You did.

[Ed Fast, Conservative, Abbotsford, BC]

Why don't you finish the debate?

[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—

[Mark Gerretsen, Liberal, Kingston and the Islands, ON]

You're entering into the debate.