Evidence of meeting #20 for Health in the 45th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was seconds.
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Liberal
Conservative
Dan Mazier Conservative Riding Mountain, MB
Minister, all I'm asking for is another 10 minutes. The longer we take with this, the longer it takes.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
Mr. Mazier, I'm quoting you: You asked the minister if she could stay for “a complete round of questions”. A round is 25 minutes.
Conservative
Dan Mazier Conservative Riding Mountain, MB
I asked for 10. That was clarification.
Anyway, Minister, can you or can you not stay?
Conservative
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
Mr. Mazier, let me call the meeting to order first. Nobody's sitting down yet. We don't have people sitting.
Come on, for crying out loud; what's wrong with you guys today? Seriously.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
I don't know; it must be something.
Okay, is everyone ready to sit down to start the meeting? It's begun again.
What I would like to say before you call a point of order, Mr. Mazier, is that the people here are the officials from Health Canada plus one new official, Dr. Natasha Crowcroft, who is the acting chief public health officer. That's for the information of the committee.
Do you have a point of order, Mr. Mazier?
Conservative
Dan Mazier Conservative Riding Mountain, MB
Yes, it's a question for the clerk.
Was Mr. Strauss on the speaking list?
Liberal
Conservative
Conservative
Dan Mazier Conservative Riding Mountain, MB
This is just for clarification: He was on the list in the last round, right?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
Yes, but that is not a point of order, by the way. I'm giving you leeway.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry
Thank you.
We will resume the meeting, but before we do, I would like to let everyone know the reason I give you a shout-out of a minute or 30 seconds. It is so that you can find a way to use your time; you can shorten your question to get the answer. If I allowed everyone to go a minute or 30 seconds over time, it would mean that not every member in this room would get a chance to ask a question. That is the reason the chair allocates time. That's the reason committees allocate time.
In the last session, we didn't have questions; we had debates, which allowed everybody to go well over time and created a bit of a problem. Therefore, I am going to give you a one-minute shout-out and a 30-second shout-out.
If Mr. Blanchette-Joncas does not want me to do that, he will have to be cut off when his time is up.
I will not give you time allocations, but you are going to be cut off when your time is up.
I hope we're aware of what the rules are. I'm setting them out very clearly.
We will begin the question and answer session starting with Mr. Mazier for five minutes, because this is an actual continuation of the two hours.
Conservative
Dan Mazier Conservative Riding Mountain, MB
Okay. Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, officials, for coming here in the second hour.
Ms. Weber, does Health Canada set an age requirement for access at all federally approved supervised drug consumption sites, yes or no?
Kendal Weber Assistant Deputy Minister, Controlled Substances and Cannabis Branch, Department of Health
Health Canada approves the exemption request, which is an exemption from the CDSA, or the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. This allows an individual to go to the site in possession of a substance and use it in a supervised location.
