Evidence of meeting #4 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was study.

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MPs speaking

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Clerk of the Committee  Ms. Tina Miller

12:50 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald

I'll try to answer that for you, Madame Desbiens.

On Thursday, of course, we're starting Mr. Hardie's study on the effects of the flooding on infrastructure, salmon and whatnot. We're having the officials in, so we don't need to have a witness list for that right now. According to Mr. Hardie, it's to talk to the officials. It will give us time for questioning and whatnot for what he wants to do on Thursday with his study.

For the dissenting opinions around the three reports that we're going to readopt in the House, they wanted to know a deadline. I understood from everybody here in the room that we're readopting studies that were previously done and naturally, if there were any dissenting reports on those, they would have been done when they were done the first time. If anybody wanted to add a dissenting report to it, we would set a deadline. Nobody seemed to have one, so we said we'd make it four o'clock or 5:30 tomorrow just to deal with that piece of information that we need to deal with in order to retable these motions back in the House again.

Mr. Perkins.

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

I'm sorry. This is confusing to me as well, Madame Desbiens, so I just want to make sure of things.

We are having a meeting this Thursday to have officials on Mr. Hardie's motion, if I heard you correctly. We will also deal with a deadline—I believe you said for this Thursday—for witnesses for that study.

The third thing, for clarification, is the dissenting reports from the previously tabled reports that will be retabled. If there were dissenting reports on that, are they automatically retabled, or do they all have to be separately sent in to you?

12:55 p.m.

The Clerk

Standing Order 108(1)(b) states that a member has the option to file dissenting or supplementary opinions to a report. The three reports that were readopted on January 20 would not include supplementary opinions from the previous session.

The point is that there is still the option to file dissenting and supplementary opinions and the committee needs to set a deadline to file those. There were reports that were readopted on January 20, and again another one today by Ms. Barron. The committee would need to set a deadline for any member to submit those dissenting or supplementary opinions.

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

For the report Ms. Barron wanted retabled today, were there dissenting reports in the previous Parliament when that report was done? Do we know that?

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

Ken Hardie Liberal Fleetwood—Port Kells, BC

Mr. Chair, I do believe that Mr. Arnold filed a dissenting report. I could be wrong.

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

That's the head shaking or agreement I was getting.

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald

Mr. Arnold, do you intend to file that again? If you do, I will have to give you a deadline.

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Mel Arnold Conservative North Okanagan—Shuswap, BC

Yes, I do.

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald

Okay.

I think we're close. We're getting close. What we don't know yet, though, is when that's going to be retabled, right? We don't know the date.

Could we get that dissenting report that's expected as soon as possible, Mel, let's say by next Wednesday at 5 p.m.?

12:55 p.m.

An hon. member

[Inaudible—Editor]

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald

Okay. Perfect.

As well, I did mention it, and I want to be clear, that the deadline for witnesses on the seafood labelling, even though that's not the one we're doing Thursday, is Thursday at 5:30 p.m. for the list of witnesses. We have to get in touch with those proposed witnesses and make sure they have the proper headsets and whatnot if they're doing it by Zoom. We need some time for that.

Is everybody in agreement?

Go ahead, Mr. Perkins.

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

Well, could we have a little more time on that one? There's a lot to do in the next 48 hours, between the new study and the deadlines. Maybe sometime next week could be the deadline for the witnesses on the labelling study.

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald

How about 5:30 p.m. Monday?

12:55 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

Sure.

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald

Okay.

It will be 5:30 p.m. Monday, which is February 7.

The clerk tells me that she needs at least three days to have witnesses prior to the study starting. Can we make it Friday instead of Thursday?

Would Friday at 4 p.m. give you time, Tina? Okay.

So Friday at 4 p.m. is the deadline for witnesses for seafood labelling. Please get them into the clerk. If they are in at 4:01p.m., we won't take them.

Go ahead, Tina.

1 p.m.

The Clerk

Could I please confirm dissenting or supplementary opinions for the three reports that were readopted on January 20, as well as the one that was readopted today, by Ms. Barron, on Pacific salmon? The deadline set for receiving dissenting opinions is tomorrow at 4 p.m. Is that correct? Could I reconfirm the deadline?

1 p.m.

Liberal

Ken Hardie Liberal Fleetwood—Port Kells, BC

Mr. Chair, I believe you said next Wednesday at 5 p.m.

1 p.m.

The Clerk

Next Wednesday? And that's for all four, right?

1 p.m.

A voice

Yes.

1 p.m.

The Clerk

Okay.

Thank you.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ken McDonald

Seeing no other intervention, the meeting is adjourned.