Evidence of meeting #1 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was arnold.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
Mel Arnold Conservative Kamloops—Shuswap—Central Rockies, BC
It might be a procedural piece, but do we need to move to committee business and to remain public?
Conservative
Mel Arnold Conservative Kamloops—Shuswap—Central Rockies, BC
Do we need to make a motion to move to committee business, or was it automatic that we were in committee business?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Patrick Weiler
We would need to actually have a motion for that right now, but first, I believe the motion has been sent.
Mr. Deschênes, Mr. Arnold's motion was sent by email.
Conservative
Mel Arnold Conservative Kamloops—Shuswap—Central Rockies, BC
If we need to move into committee business to discuss this motion, I so move.
Liberal
Serge Cormier Liberal Acadie—Bathurst, NB
We don't need to move to go into committee business if we all agree. We can just do it like that. We are already in public.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Patrick Weiler
That's okay.
The motion that was sent out was the wrong one. We're going to share the right one with the members.
Mr. Cormier.
Liberal
Serge Cormier Liberal Acadie—Bathurst, NB
Maybe we can just suspend while they get the language for Mr. Deschênes and then come back.
Liberal
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Patrick Weiler
The correct motion has been circulated, so you should have that in your inboxes now.
I think the question is whether there is unanimous consent to adopt this motion and thus allow the report to be tabled in the House to get the government's response. Before finishing that, there will need to be some small changes to update that report with the current session number and things like that. Those are the types of minor changes the clerks would have to make.
The question here is whether there is unanimous consent to adopt that motion.
Bloc
Alexis Deschênes Bloc Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj, QC
Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a very simple amendment to this motion. It's to add, “for a maximum of two meetings”.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Patrick Weiler
That's another motion, Mr. Deschênes. The first motion that was emailed was the wrong one, so you were sent another email. The motion in question is simply to table in the House the report that was completed in September or October of last year and to get a government response. I don't think we need any more meetings for that.
Bloc
Alexis Deschênes Bloc Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj, QC
Yes, then, there is unanimous consent to move this motion.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Patrick Weiler
Thank you very much.
The clerk will first have the report updated for the new session, after which I will submit the report to the House.
Mr. Deschênes, you have the floor again.
Bloc
Alexis Deschênes Bloc Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj, QC
I'd like to give notice of the following motion:
That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee resume its study of the scales used by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to set redfish fishing quotas, and that the testimony and documents gathered by the Committee during the 1st session of the 44th Parliament concerning the study be taken into consideration by the Committee during the current session; and that, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee undertake a study of the process for allocating fishing rights, covering both the example of redfish quotas in 2024 and that of exploratory lobster fishing licences in 2024 and 2025; that the Committee call 11 witnesses and set aside 5 hours to study the process for allocating exploratory lobster fishing licences; and that the Committee then set aside 4 meetings to complete the study and draft the report.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Patrick Weiler
Thank you very much, Mr. Deschênes. Did you send that motion by email?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Patrick Weiler
Thank you.
Is there anybody who would like to speak on this motion that's just been tabled?
Liberal
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Patrick Weiler
Let's resume.
Everybody should have received the notice of motion by email. That notice of motion has been officially shared.
With that, I'll go to Mr. Cormier.
Liberal
Serge Cormier Liberal Acadie—Bathurst, NB
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If it's a notice of motion, we agree with our Bloc colleague's motion.