Evidence of meeting #1 for Subcommittee on Food Safety in the 40th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
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Conservative
Bloc
André Bellavance Bloc Richmond—Arthabaska, QC
I simply wanted to say that it is almost 5:30 p.m., and that, during his turn, Mr. Anderson said that we did not want to discuss this matter or that matter. In my case, this is completely false. He said that I did not want to talk about food safety. I want to point out to you that we have totally wasted our time for two hours, and that the subcommittee has not done its job on listeriosis. I remind you that people died as a result of that unfortunate affair. Yet, for the last two hours, Mr. Anderson has simply shown us that he does not want a serious discussion on either listeriosis or food safety.
Conservative
David Anderson Conservative Cypress Hills—Grasslands, SK
I'm not sure why Mr. Bellavance is trying to distort my position. That's not what I said at all. I said a number of times that we want to get to this. We want to be dealing with it seriously by next Tuesday if we possibly can. So we don't have any problem with that.
As far as wasting time goes, we were not the ones who started the wasting of time here. We're the ones who are willing to compromise and to work with the other parties as long as they're willing to communicate to us what's going on. Mr. Easter said it all when he said, in so many words, that this was a trick. He didn't want us to know that this was taking place ahead of time.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Larry Miller
Mr. Anderson, it is now 5:30. I hear the bells for votes. We're not sure of the next location, but it will be at 6:30 next Tuesday night, March 31.
The meeting is adjourned.