Evidence of meeting #36 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was dfo.
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Conservative
Todd Doherty Conservative Cariboo—Prince George, BC
Mr. Chair, I believe the deadline is November 25.
Liberal
Ken Hardie Liberal Fleetwood—Port Kells, BC
Is the intention of this motion that this material be entered as evidence into the hearing?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Scott Simms
I'm sorry, for point of clarification before we proceed, November 25 is the deadline for Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the minister's office; November 30 is the deadline for submissions for this particular committee, Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans.
Mr. Arnold, go ahead.
Conservative
Mel Arnold Conservative North Okanagan—Shuswap, BC
The motion is clearly to get the submissions to the committee as soon as possible, so that we can consider it with due process.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Scott Simms
Is there any comment on that or further debate? It's a motion pertaining to business here today.
Ms. Jordan, go ahead.
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Scott Simms
There's a motion on the floor, ma'am. I can't break. I'm sorry. We have to decide right now, through debate.
Do you have a comment?
Liberal
Liberal
Bernadette Jordan Liberal South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
I'd like to amend it to read “30” instead of “7”.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Scott Simms
Ms. Jordan, you'll have to put an amendment on the floor to that effect. For the benefit of what you're hoping to do, I will suspend for a few moments so that you can discuss it.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Scott Simms
I wanted to dispense with this early, but since we have some confusion on the floor, we'll suspend for a few minutes.
If you want to propose your amendment, put it in writing.
I'd like to ask our officials to please come forward.
Thank you very much.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Scott Simms
Welcome back, everybody.
Before we get to our witnesses, we're dealing with a motion on the floor.
Ms. Jordan, I understand you have an amendment you'd like to move.
Liberal
Bernadette Jordan Liberal South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
I'd like to move that the motion read the same except for “14 days” as opposed to “7 days”.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Scott Simms
Just so it's clear, and I won't read the whole thing, the middle part says, “that this public input be provided to the committee within 7 days of the passing of this motion”. You want to change “7” to “14”.
Conservative
Mel Arnold Conservative North Okanagan—Shuswap, BC
Mr. Chair, I'm wondering why we would wait for an extra week to receive it from the department. The department should have it within a week. I think that's a reasonable amount of time to turn it over. It doesn't mean that we have to look at it within those seven days, just that we want to start receiving it as soon as possible.
Liberal
Bernadette Jordan Liberal South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
We're asking that it be amended to “14 days”.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Scott Simms
Are there any more comments?
Let's go to a vote.
(Amendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Now we must move to the main motion as amended. It states:
That the Committee request from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) all input received from DFO’s online public consultation related to the Fisheries Act Review to date; that this public input be provided to the committee within 14 days of the passing of this motion; and that all input received for this consultation in future be also provided to the Committee within 14 days of receipt by the department.
(Motion as amended agreed to)
Mr. Doherty.
Conservative
Todd Doherty Conservative Cariboo—Prince George, BC
On a point of order, Mr. Chair, when we set out as a committee to undertake this study, it was to be non-partisan, not politically motivated, obviously, but it was to look at the best way of moving forward. That said, we also asked or suggested that our witnesses be likewise.
We had two witnesses before us today. One, I would say, may have been very partisan, at least—
Liberal