Evidence of meeting #14 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 44th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was report.
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Liberal
Lloyd Longfield Liberal Guelph, ON
I would put in control of the committee, so “that the committee consider inviting organizations to appear to discuss the findings of the....”
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
Give me just a second. Let me write this down. “That the committee consider inviting organizations....”
NDP
Laurel Collins NDP Victoria, BC
Mr. Chair, just as a point of clarification, I think Mr. Longfield may have read the motion...or maybe when I read it out it wasn't clear. It's “that organizations that are invited to appear—
Liberal
NDP
Laurel Collins NDP Victoria, BC
Yes. It does not require us to invite all of them. It's the exact same motion as public accounts uses. It would be the same procedure you would experience there.
Liberal
Lloyd Longfield Liberal Guelph, ON
Okay. Thank you. It's the exact same motion. Thank you for clarifying.
Conservative
Earl Dreeshen Conservative Red Deer—Mountain View, AB
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I had wanted to make that particular point as well.
What we do have handed out and what Ms. Collins read are two different things. It says, “To the committee and the commissioner within six months of the audit”. What she indicated was the “commissioner of the environment” and so on. So I would think that what she read should be the part that is included. The part that was just distributed....
Liberal
Conservative
Earl Dreeshen Conservative Red Deer—Mountain View, AB
I would listen to what Laurel said when she talked about “and the commissioner—
Liberal
Conservative
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
Do you accept that, Ms. Collins? Instead of saying “the commissioner”, we say “that the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development within six months of the audit”. We're just specifying that it's Mr. DeMarco, basically.
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Francis Scarpaleggia
Okay.
Based on this brief discussion, do members want to adopt this motion?
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Thank you.
We'll continue.
Ms. Collins, you basically have a little under a minute, probably about 50 seconds. Please go ahead.
Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Office of the Auditor General
Mr. Chair, if I could make a friendly amendment to my amended response, I forgot about scope 1 and 2 emissions for Crown corporations, which are a different exhibit, in 2.2. That's another 397 kilotonnes in addition to what I said before.