Evidence of meeting #90 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 regulations.
A recording is available from Parliament.
NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
Actually, I have a point of order on that. I would appreciate Mr. Amos and yourself writing another letter apologizing for excluding my name from that letter.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay. First off, it's not committee business. It was a mistake to distribute it here in committee time. That will not happen again, I hope.
We'll discuss it outside and—
Conservative
Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC
Madam Chair, with respect, when something is distributed here at the table while a meeting is going on and the meeting has not been adjourned, it now becomes committee business and is subject to discussion, and a challenge, if warranted. Ms. Duncan is right, if she didn't receive a copy of that letter...although I think Mr. Amos broadly circulated it and—
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Exactly. My comment wasn't to say she shouldn't have it, she has it several times.
Conservative
Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC
—more formally, I think, because it was formally circulated at our meeting, even though it wasn't part of existing committee—
Liberal
Liberal
Mark Gerretsen Liberal Kingston and the Islands, ON
Right, but if you have a substitute on the committee and something is distributed in an informal sense at the committee table, it's up to your substitute to make sure that you get that information. If it is something that is officially part of the correspondence of the committee, then the clerk and/or the chair will distribute that in the official capacity in which it happens.
NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
I want to speak. I'm not trying to be obstreperous about this; I'm simply curious, okay? Something was circulated to everybody. I don't know what it was, and I'd appreciate receiving it. I'm not saying my rights have been violated; I'm saying that something was circulated and I'm interested in what it was. Now that I discover it was a request to sign onto the letter, I did sign on through my member of the committee, and yet my name was still removed from the letter. So I'm asking the two who submitted that to the government, please write again and say, “We, by mistake, excluded Linda Duncan's name.” That's all.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
Okay. I'd really like to wrap this up because I'd like to move on to the purpose of the meeting, which is clause-by-clause study. We have every right to bring forward a motion, and so we will address that when we come back.
All right—
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
—we're good, and outside we'll do what we need to discuss with Linda.
All right, thank you.
We had finished clause 8, and we are now on clause 9.
(On clause 9)
I see there has been a motion brought forward.
Liberal
Mike Bossio Liberal Hastings—Lennox and Addington, ON
Madam Chair and committee, I'd like to amend clause 9 by replacing line 35, on page 7, with the following:
relating to sustainable development, or of both Houses of Parlia-
I mean “Parliament”, if you finish the word. This would be consistent with what was replaced in proposed section10.1 in clause 8.
Liberal
Liberal
Mike Bossio Liberal Hastings—Lennox and Addington, ON
It is, correct, and I can raise it now as well. After passing that, we had noticed that there were other areas that we should have been consistent with in the document and weren't. I will bring those up as well and beg for the committee to consider unanimously supporting those changes as well, but we'll deal with this change first.
