Evidence of meeting #18 for Industry, Science and Technology in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was vaccines.
A recording is available from Parliament.
12:40 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Sherry Romanado
Thank you.
I see some hands up.
Is it a point of order, Mr. Lemire?
12:40 p.m.
Bloc
Sébastien Lemire Bloc Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
I just want to make sure that, as vice-chair, he will reply when we send him an email. Before we ratify the nomination, I felt it was important to be sure of that.
12:40 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Sherry Romanado
He probably doesn't want to give us his personal email address, given that this is a public meeting. We could ask him for it after the meeting.
Congratulations, MP Poilievre. We're happy to have you on board.
With that, I wanted to give an update to the committee on what we're working on because I know we have a lot of new members.
Next week we have meetings, obviously, on Tuesday and Thursday. We had a few witnesses from the affordability and accessibility study who had not responded and/or were not available when we were doing the four meetings earlier this year. We reached out to them to see if there was any interest for them to be able to come for one hour.
Next Tuesday, we will finalize the affordability and accessibility study. We will have with us, from Québecor, Pierre Karl Péladeau; from Vidéotron, Jean-François Pruneau; and from Southwestern Integrated Fibre Technology, Barry Field. They will come for an hour. We will be able to finalize that study then.
Afterwards, we will go in camera for some business, to discuss, obviously, giving instructions to the analysts with respect to that study and other business that we need to take care of.
On Thursday we are continuing the domestic manufacture of vaccines, with Dr. Mona Nemer, the chief science adviser to the Prime Minister. We have Medicago, and we have some other witness groups we're waiting to hear back from. I wanted to give the committee an idea of what we're looking at.
Next week, on Tuesday when we are meeting for in camera business, I'd like for us to decide on the additional study that will come after the manufacturing of vaccines so that we can give instructions to the clerk for witnesses and to line things up.
You should have received the motions, but we'll recirculate the study motions that were already approved. That way, we can be ready to have those conversations next week and decide as a committee what we'd like to focus on right after this study is completed.
Are there any questions regarding that?
Go ahead, Mr. Lemire.
12:40 p.m.
Bloc
Sébastien Lemire Bloc Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Would it be possible to get those things by email? I'm quite visual.
I did not get the name of the third person who will be at next Thursday's meeting on manufacturing vaccines.
Are you expecting us to suggest witnesses? Since the Medicago company will be appearing, is it possible for us to suggest witnesses?
The same question goes for Tuesday's meeting. I understand that it will be only one hour long. If we invite another witness, we may well run out of time and have to limit our rounds.
I just want to know whether there are any expectations in that regard.
12:40 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Sherry Romanado
We have not set a deadline for proposing the names of witnesses to be invited for our study on the manufacturers.
If you wish to invite witnesses, please contact the clerk directly as soon as possible. It is difficult to fit everyone into the schedule when we find out at the last minute. If you want to suggest other witnesses, please tell Mr. MacPherson.
We will send you the details of the meetings, as well as the motions about the studies that we have already approved. Next Tuesday, we will be in a position to decide what we will be doing in the next round.
12:45 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Sherry Romanado
No problem.
Are there any other questions or comments?
Seeing none, I will now therefore adjourn this meeting, and I will see you all on Tuesday.
My thanks to the interpreters and the IT technicians.
To our clerk and our analysts, thank you again for everything you're doing. We really appreciate it.
Thank you.