Health Committee on Nov. 25th, 2010

[Ujjal Dosanjh, Liberal, Vancouver South, BC]

Even if it's ultra vires? Check the rules, please.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Is this a point of order, Mr. Dosanjh?

[Ujjal Dosanjh, Liberal, Vancouver South, BC]

Yes, it is a point of order. Check the rules.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

We'll check the rules. We'll suspend the motion, then. We'll check the rules while we're suspending the motion.

Mr. Malo, you have the floor.

[Luc Malo, Bloc, Verchères—Les Patriotes, QC]

Thank you.

That being the case, I would now just like unanimous consent from all my colleagues to move the December 7 meeting to December 9 and to give all the people who will have to look for those documents two extra days.

[Ujjal Dosanjh, Liberal, Vancouver South, BC]

Let's first move the meeting and then he can make the motion.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Dr. Carrie.

[Colin Carrie, Conservative, Oshawa, ON]

I'd be in favour of that.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Does that mean that you're withdrawing your motion?

[Colin Carrie, Conservative, Oshawa, ON]

No, but I had another suggestion. Because of the ninth meeting on the draft report, we have an open meeting now. We agreed on an agenda before. Unfortunately, we used up three meetings on Bill C-36. I believe it was healthy living that we had to move forward.

Would it give the officials enough time if we could continue our study on healthy living? I don't think we would like to lose a meeting. We could give you enough time to get back on track with that important study. I would recommend that we put one in on the seventh.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Healthy living on the ninth?

[Colin Carrie, Conservative, Oshawa, ON]

I think so. That's what we agreed on.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

That was around childhood obesity and all those kinds of things.

[Colin Carrie, Conservative, Oshawa, ON]

We just heard today the importance of all those things with Health Canada--childhood obesity. Madam Chow mentioned the--

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Monsieur Malo.

[Luc Malo, Bloc, Verchères—Les Patriotes, QC]

Exactly, Madam Chair, we could most definitely use the December 7 meeting to discuss that. But we would discuss it amongst ourselves to decide on the scope of the study that we want to do, and its parameters. As we know, the issue of healthy living is a very broad one. Perhaps we could decide together which aspects of the topic we wanted to study as a priority.

So we could have that discussion together on December 7.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Okay, so the agreement is that we'll be doing healthy living and looking at the scope on the ninth.

[Ujjal Dosanjh, Liberal, Vancouver South, BC]

May I make a suggestion?

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Sure, Mr. Dosanjh.

[Ujjal Dosanjh, Liberal, Vancouver South, BC]

I move that you hold Mr. Carrie's motion in abeyance, and we agree to switch the meetings of the seventh and ninth around.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Okay. I see.

[Ujjal Dosanjh, Liberal, Vancouver South, BC]

Then we can amend my motion--I agree to Mr. Malo's amendment--to make it nine working days.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

Can I clarify?

[Ujjal Dosanjh, Liberal, Vancouver South, BC]

Yes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joy Smith]

So we will have nine working days, instead of the seven. We have that on the table right now.

Is everyone in agreement with that?