Evidence of meeting #107 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was cost.
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Liberal
Conservative
Bob Zimmer Conservative Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, BC
Time is very short, Mr. Chair, and I asked him a simple question.
Is paying $11.49 per kilogram or three dollars per apple fair? He can answer yes or no.
Conservative
Bob Zimmer Conservative Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, BC
That's not in the Standing Orders. He doesn't have equal time to respond.
Conservative
Bob Zimmer Conservative Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, BC
I'm asking a simple question, and I would like a simple answer, Mr. Chair.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal John Aldag
I'll give it to the minister, but it was a minute and 15 seconds on the—
Conservative
Liberal
Dan Vandal Liberal Saint Boniface—Saint Vital, MB
I should get to answer for a minute and 15 seconds.
Conservative
Bob Zimmer Conservative Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, BC
No, that's not the way the Standing Orders go.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal John Aldag
Before I start the clock, we'll have the minister get to the point.
There was some preamble there, and I think it's reasonable that we hear some preamble to his response.
Liberal
Dan Vandal Liberal Saint Boniface—Saint Vital, MB
Yes, it's important to clarify some of the falsehoods in his opening statement, because that's what they were. They were dead wrong. There is no price on pollution for aviation fuel in the territories.
Conservative
Bob Zimmer Conservative Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, BC
That's not what I said. I said “the north”, Minister.
Liberal
Dan Vandal Liberal Saint Boniface—Saint Vital, MB
There is no price on pollution in interterritorial or interprovincial travel—
Conservative
Bob Zimmer Conservative Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, BC
You'd know that the north, we define by northern Manitoba—
Liberal
Dan Vandal Liberal Saint Boniface—Saint Vital, MB
There is no price on pollution in interprovincial travel—
Conservative
Bob Zimmer Conservative Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, BC
I'd like to get back to my question, because you're trying to pivot to say something that I'm not even asking you.
Liberal
Dan Vandal Liberal Saint Boniface—Saint Vital, MB
No, I'm correcting the falsehoods that you stated in your preamble.
Conservative
Liberal
The Chair Liberal John Aldag
I'm going to suspend here if I have to.
We can't have people speaking over each other. It's one person on the mic at a time.
Conservative
Bob Zimmer Conservative Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, BC
He's already used up more time than I even used for my question, by far—
Conservative
Bob Zimmer Conservative Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, BC
—and he's not giving the answer. He's accusing me of falsehoods, which is false.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal John Aldag
I'm going to restart the clock, but I'm just saying that we can only have one person speaking.
Ask the question. Allow the minister to answer, and then we can go back and forth.
Conservative
Bob Zimmer Conservative Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies, BC
I'm going to move to my second question, because he hasn't answered my first.
Is paying almost $9 for a can of tuna fair?