Evidence of meeting #6 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 amendment.
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NDP
Gord Johns NDP Courtenay—Alberni, BC
Mr. Chair, would it be appropriate for us to have the senior bureaucrats and officials for the first hour, and in the second hour get a briefing on Big Bar? Would my colleagues agree that this approach would be appropriate, given the sense of urgency around Big Bar?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
Mr. Johns, I suggest that we allocate probably an hour and a half for officials and whoever is here to talk about COVID and Big Bar. It would probably be the same officials, I would think. We would use half an hour to try to schedule what we're going to do going forward instead of leaving it half-botched with no set agenda. I'd rather see us take a bit of time to at least discuss the first couple of things we're going to do going forward without the officials being part of that.
NDP
Gord Johns NDP Courtenay—Alberni, BC
To clarify, Mr. Chair, maybe we could just focus on COVID and do Big Bar with the senior officials separately, because I think that needs some time.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald
Thank you for that, Mr. Johns.
If everybody is okay with that, we'll try to get the officials in on Wednesday to talk about the COVID response from the department. Then we'll try to use the last half hour to schedule the next two or three meetings after that, probably up to the end of June, June 17 or 19 in whatever week it is, so we can get some clarity on what the committee will be doing over the next month or so. If everybody is okay with that, we'll move in that direction.
As there's no further discussion, thank you, everyone. Have a good evening.
The meeting is adjourned.