Health Committee on March 5th, 2021

[The Clerk]

Mr. Chair, I'd like to clarify something. There would be two witnesses from Health Canada, Dr. Supriya Sharma and Dr. Marc Berthiaume.

[Luc Thériault, Bloc, Montcalm, QC]

So we're no longer talking about a long list of other experts. We're not trying to muddy the waters anymore.

I'm fine with inviting officials from Health Canada, and I think we have two hours to do that.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Thank you, Mr. Thériault.

Mr. Fisher, please go ahead.

[Darren Fisher, Liberal, Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, NS]

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I got my clarity there.

Thank you to both Sonia and Luc for that intervention.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Thank you, Mr. Fisher.

We have no hands up after Mr. Fisher.

We shall proceed to a vote on Ms. Sidhu's amendment.

(Amendment agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

We go back to the main motion as amended by Mr. Thériault and further amended by Ms. Sidhu.

On the motion as amended, is there any—

[Don Davies, NDP, Vancouver Kingsway, BC]

On a point of order, Mr. Chair, it is as amended by me, not by Mr. Thériault.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

My apologies.

We go back to the main motion as amended by Mr. Davies and subsequently amended by Ms. Sidhu. I'm sorry for that error, Mr. Davies.

We are resuming discussion on the motion as amended. Is there any discussion?

Seeing no hands raised, I shall ask the clerk to conduct the vote once again.

(Motion as amended agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0)

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

It sounds like we squeaked it in there. Congratulations, the motion is passed.

I'd like to thank everyone for all their work today. It was a good discussion.

Mr. Clerk, please go ahead and lock down that meeting slot for us.

That being the case, I think our business is done here.

[John Barlow, Conservative, Foothills, AB]

Mr. Chair—

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Mr. Barlow, go ahead.

[John Barlow, Conservative, Foothills, AB]

Mr. Chair, I have one quick comment about a bit of business.

We saw that the law clerk sent out his note the other day saying that he does not have the contracts that the Government of Canada signed with the vaccine companies, which we asked for in a motion that was passed a couple of weeks ago. It's my understanding that you, as chair, and the clerk have put together a letter to the government to request that information.

Has that been done, and can the members of this committee get a copy of that letter?

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

I've received the letter, signed it, and sent it back to my office. It will be getting back to the clerk ASAP, and we'll send it out imminently.

Once the clerk gets it, he can distribute it to the committee as per our normal process.

[John Barlow, Conservative, Foothills, AB]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Ron McKinnon]

Thank you, everybody.

Thanks to the interpreters for dealing with all of the abuse that we put them through.

The meeting is adjourned.