Blaine Calkins at the Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38

On May 17th, 2012. See this statement in context.

May 17th, 2012 / 9:50 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Blaine Calkins

I believe Mr. Kamp is right.

I'm looking at our mandate from the finance committee for the subcommittee, and I'm also looking at what the analyst has just given me:

Division 18 of Part 4 amends the Fisheries Act to authorize the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans to allocate fish for the purpose

Our scope of mandate as a subcommittee, according to paragraph (v), is that we will look at part 3 of this particular bill.

So Minister, I guess the question that's been put is out of order, because it's out of the scope of the mandate of this committee. However, I will leave it up to your discretion as to whether or not you wish to answer.

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