Evidence of meeting #91 for Health in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was smoking.
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7:15 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bill Casey
Well, that's good.
Thank you very much to our guests. You've been very helpful, and you're helping us learn a lot.
7:15 p.m.
A voice
Do you want to go in camera?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bill Casey
There's no reason to go in camera. I'm going to turn the mike over to our clerk, who had a question she wanted to ask.
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The Clerk of the Committee Ms. Marie-Hélène Sauvé
Yes, just quickly, after consultation with the legislative council and legislative clerks concerning the deadline for amendments to Bill S-5—I know we talked about this already, so I apologize for bringing this back to the table—the legislative teams needs some time to put the amendments package together before distributing it to all members of the committee and in order for the committee to have enough time to look over the package.
In order to do that, what the legislative clerks are proposing is that the deadline for amendments be on Tuesday, the 27th, at noon. That gives them time to put the package together and distribute it to all members by the end of day on the 27th so that members will have most of the day to review the amendments package on the 28th before we go to clause by clause.
7:20 p.m.
The Clerk
Yes, at noon.
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The Clerk
It's perfect timing.
7:20 p.m.
Conservative
Marilyn Gladu Conservative Sarnia—Lambton, ON
I'm fine with that, I just wanted to ask a question about the supplementary estimates since you mentioned the budget. Will we be able invite the minister to come and talk about those by the deadline?
7:20 p.m.
Conservative
Marilyn Gladu Conservative Sarnia—Lambton, ON
I would move that we invite the minister to discuss the supplementary estimates.
7:20 p.m.
The Clerk
Given the timing, with the number of allotted days that have already passed, pretty much the latest we could study the estimates before they are due back to the House would be March 19.
7:20 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bill Casey
Is there any debate on the motion to invite the minister?
All in favour? All opposed?
(Motion agreed to)
7:20 p.m.
The Clerk
My apologies again, I have one last note on the deadline for amendments.
Given that this committee adopted a motion in May of 2016 to give a 48-hour deadline for independent members to submit an amendment before the clause-by-clause deadline, if we allow the committee members to have a shorter deadline, on the 27th, at noon, it does appear to be unfair to independent members.
I would suggest that the committee adopt a motion that all members of the House have the same deadline to submit amendments to Bill S-5, which would be on February 27, at noon.
7:20 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bill Casey
My schedule shows that our next meeting is on February 26, at 12 noon. That's a pharmacare meeting. Does everybody agree with that?
We meet again for the second time that day at 3:30 p.m. That should be our last double-duty day, and that's for more on our study of Bill S-5. At noon we have pharmacare. Then, at 3:30 p.m., we have Bill S-5, and then on Wednesday the 28th, we do clause by clause for Bill S-5.
Thank you very much, Madam Vice-Chair, for doing that, because that all happened when I wasn't here.
7:20 p.m.
Conservative
Marilyn Gladu Conservative Sarnia—Lambton, ON
No problem. I did the best job I could, and they were all very co-operative.
I have one question. I was really happy the health minister decided to add some meetings with us. I saw the schedule come out with the food guide stakeholders, so we need to schedule those at some point.
7:20 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Bill Casey
Yes. It's on our radar, but we don't have the schedule. We will do that when we reconvene.
7:20 p.m.
Conservative
Diane Finley Conservative Haldimand—Norfolk, ON
Mr. Edwards and others have made reference to the report issued by Public Health England just last week. There was a request to get a copy of it. I have that, if you would like it, and if you would like to distribute that to all the members of the committee.
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NDP
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Liberal
