Evidence of meeting #45 for Health in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was injuries.
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Liberal
Ujjal Dosanjh Liberal Vancouver South, BC
I'd be happy to have that amendment.
There's another part of my motion that needs to be amended, and that's paragraph (e). Rather than saying “every four years”, just say “regularly”. So whenever the government believes it's appropriate to do a report, it will do so, rather than saying a report should be done every four years.
Do you want to move that?
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Liberal
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joy Smith
Do you mind if I just try to clarify this to make sure everyone's clear on it?
Basically, under Mr. Dosanjh's motion, Dr. Duncan has recommended that she puts hers first:
That the committee recommend that the minister announce a new set of picture warnings for cigarette packaging on or before Monday, January 17, 2011, to mark national non-smoking week; and that, in the opinion of the committee, the government should amend the Tobacco Products Information Regulations forthwith to require that:
—and the rest would read the same until we get to paragraph (e), right, Mr. Dosanjh?—
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joy Smith
—where the amended paragraph would read:
health warning messages be reviewed regularly to ensure that the labels stay current and that the committee report this motion to the House.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Colin Carrie Conservative Oshawa, ON
Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
We're prepared to deal with these two motions separately today. I agree with you that if we deal with Madam Duncan's, we can probably get that over with in about 30 seconds; but I do have some issues with Mr. Dosanjh's motion, which might require some further discussion.
So I think if we just do it the way all of us originally thought we would, we could expedite the process, but it's up to the opposition what they would like to do today.
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Liberal
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Liberal
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Conservative
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Liberal
Kirsty Duncan Liberal Etobicoke North, ON
Thank you all.
The motion is that the committee recommend that the minister announce a new set of picture warnings for cigarette packaging on or before Monday, January 17, 2011, to mark national non-smoking week, and that this motion be reported to the House.
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An hon. member
I like it.
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Conservative
Colin Carrie Conservative Oshawa, ON
I just have a quick comment.
As we heard from the minister last week, she is willing to move forward with an announcement soon. So I think we will be able to support this motion.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joy Smith
Can we go to the question now?
(Motion agreed to) [See Minutes of Proceedings]
Now, Mr. Dosanjh, it's your turn.
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Liberal
Ujjal Dosanjh Liberal Vancouver South, BC
I move my original motion.
It doesn't require any discussion, at least from my perspective. I think we went through a day of hearings on this very issue and the motion is quite self-explanatory as it stands.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joy Smith
But you do want the word “regularly” in there instead of “every four years”.
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Liberal
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joy Smith
Dr. Carrie, we're going to talk to the amendment first, changing the words “every four years” to “regularly”.
Dr. Carrie.