Evidence of meeting #12 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was work.
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4:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
All right. I'm hearing consensus, so that's what we'll do for the next two meetings.
Nancy, I don't know if there's anything else from the clerk's end that you want to mention.
4:45 p.m.
The Clerk of the Committee Ms. Nancy Vohl
Yes. From a procedural standpoint, in order to respect the order of the House, decisions have to be taken by recorded vote. If it's all right with you, we'll proceed with a recorded vote.
4:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
Okay, we'll have a recorded vote on the idea that we continue on with the study on Pacific salmon for the next two meetings, one to be held on August 11 and the second to be held on August 13.
Nancy, I'll ask you to call the recorded vote.
4:45 p.m.
Conservative
Mel Arnold Conservative North Okanagan—Shuswap, BC
I would also like to state that after this Thursday I believe we still need three meetings on Pacific salmon to satisfy the study motion.
4:45 p.m.
Liberal
4:45 p.m.
Conservative
Mel Arnold Conservative North Okanagan—Shuswap, BC
Okay. I agree with the two August meetings being on salmon, then, and I'll speak afterwards. Thank you.
4:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
Go ahead, Nancy.
(Motion agreed to: yeas 10; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Mr. Arnold, did you want to raise an issue?
4:45 p.m.
Conservative
Mel Arnold Conservative North Okanagan—Shuswap, BC
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
From my calculations, after this Thursday's meeting, it looks like we would still require three more meetings on Pacific salmon in order to meet the study requirements, but we can confirm that off-line as well.
4:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
Okay. I'll ask the clerk to check back to see exactly how many meetings we've had and report back to the committee. We have time. If it's deemed to be only five up to that Thursday, we'll know that we have to have one more at least, but as I said earlier, we're not handcuffed to just six meetings. We can extend it beyond that if we find it necessary.
Nancy, would you check into that for us when we come back, or report to committee on Thursday the exact intent of the motion and how many days we've dedicated to Pacific salmon?
4:45 p.m.
The Clerk
We've already had one meeting with the officials, and that was mostly on Big Bar. Then we had two meetings on Big Bar, including today. Tomorrow will be a meeting on Pacific salmon more generally, and at the end of that meeting, time will be taken in camera so that you can suggest drafting instructions to the analysts, because Big Bar, according to the motion, requires an interim report before the final report.
After that, we go back to witnesses on Pacific salmon. Then, because there's no official limitation for meetings on Pacific salmon, there can be more than that. It can be more than two, it can be more than three. The committee technically said at least six meetings, but no maximum.
4:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
Okay, but I think, for the committee, Nancy, we'd like to know at that time how many meetings we have dedicated to Pacific salmon so that we would know if we've had five, or six, or four, or whatever the number is, just so the committee knows where we are. Then if there are any committee meetings still left to be scheduled after that time frame, we can deal with them at that point.
4:50 p.m.
The Clerk
I'm sorry; the sound is a bit bad for me right now, but what I hear and understand from the question is that there will be witnesses on Pacific salmon Thursday, and then two more meetings in August. Then, we do not have dates in September. The motion adopted by the House is that the committee can meet for scheduling until September 21, but the committee has not adopted details to meet in September at this time.
4:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
I suggest we move forward with knowing that we're going to have two more meetings on Pacific salmon. There may be more, but at least we have time now to get our witness list in so the clerk can get in touch with those witnesses and have them lined up for those dates as well.
Is there other committee business? I'm hearing nothing.
I thank everyone for your participation today—
4:50 p.m.
The Clerk
Mr. Chair—
July 21st, 2020 / 4:50 p.m.
The Clerk
I'm sorry for the delay. It's because of my technical issues.
To answer Mr. Morrissey, he asked if we still had witnesses. I still have witnesses from most parties, but some parties are running low. I suggest, for example, that the Liberals are running low, and if they wanted to [Technical difficulty—Editor] some parties still have a lot of witnesses, and some of the parties have a lot fewer.
4:50 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
You were broken up a bit in what you were saying, Nancy, but I think it was to encourage members, if they still know of any witnesses they would like to see appear before committee, to by all means send them in to the clerk as soon as possible so she can start making contact with those individuals and setting them up on the days they're available.
Hearing nothing else, I'll thank everybody for their participation today. We'll see you all here and well, hopefully, on Thursday.
The meeting is adjourned.