International Trade Committee on May 19th, 2016

[Tracey Ramsey, NDP, Essex, ON]

So, then, you're talking about striking the second portion, where it says “including the number of comments both in support of and opposed to the TPP”.

[Karen Ludwig, Liberal, New Brunswick Southwest, NB]

Yes, but a breakdown would still be submitted.

[Tracey Ramsey, NDP, Essex, ON]

I would say a summary of comments, not a breakdown.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

Mr. Van Kesteren.

[Dave Van Kesteren, Conservative, Chatham-Kent—Leamington, ON]

Tracey, this is to you through the chair. June 29—as my colleague said, there's not a hope. There's not a hope that we can even begin to scratch the surface of any of these requests.

Wouldn't it make more sense to say “any impact study that has been done or a schedule of”?

It's impossible.

[Tracey Ramsey, NDP, Essex, ON]

Do you have an amendment?

[Dave Van Kesteren, Conservative, Chatham-Kent—Leamington, ON]

If you're requesting what has been done to date, let's just have a summary of that. There's no way that they're going to even scratch this, unless you give them to 2017.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

I'm hoping to move on and vote on this motion.

I have Mr. Ritz and Mr. Peterson.

Mr. Ritz, please.

[Gerry Ritz, Conservative, Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

If my memory serves me correctly, I think we actually had on the record, or it was a motion, that we were going to aggregate or bucket the comments.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

That's right.

[Gerry Ritz, Conservative, Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK]

The number really doesn't matter. It's the aggregation of or bucketing of that that would be directed. This motion is actually contrary to a motion that is already in place.

[Tracey Ramsey, NDP, Essex, ON]

The motion that we currently have—

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

I'm going to go one person at a time, and I hope to try to wrap this up.

Mr. Clerk.

[The Clerk of the Committee, Mr. Rémi Bourgault]

Mr. Ritz, they are talking about the government consultation, not our consultation. The government has their own email address. It's [email protected], and so it's not our consultations.

[Gerry Ritz, Conservative, Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK]

They're not aggregating. They're doing them one by one.

[Tracey Ramsey, NDP, Essex, ON]

They're also not held to the June 29 date.

[Gerry Ritz, Conservative, Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK]

I think it would be double of what we're doing.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

I think the clerk clarified it.

Mr. Peterson.

[Kyle Peterson, Liberal, Newmarket—Aurora, ON]

Mr. Chair, given the significant number of amendments, and those amendments have yet to be translated, I think it's only fair that those amendments be translated before members of this committee get a chance to vote on them. I'm going to move that we adjourn debate on this motion.

[A voice]

Is that a motion to adjourn the committee?

[Kyle Peterson, Liberal, Newmarket—Aurora, ON]

It's to adjourn the debate on this motion.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

There has been a request that this amendment should be in both official languages, and we don't have that amendment at hand here right now.

[Randy Hoback, Conservative, Prince Albert, SK]

Mr. Chair, on a point of order.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

Yes, sir.

[Randy Hoback, Conservative, Prince Albert, SK]

What you see going on right now are amendments being done in committee, so translation would not be necessary.

I don't want to set a precedent because there will be times when we'll have motions where we're going to be friendly around the committee and say, “Okay, let's get these amendments through and get the motion done.”

If we take this precedent, then we won't be able to deal with any motion in its entirety in one meeting.