International Trade Committee on Nov. 22nd, 2016

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

I'm saying they all have to be tied in and done so that they can be entertained when we do our clause-by-clause study. It has to be by December 6.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

Go ahead.

[The Clerk]

It's just that in order to have the submissions distributed to you, as members of the committee, they have to be translated.

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

That's fine.

[The Clerk]

If I receive them only by the deadline of December 6, then you won't have them before dealing with the bill clause by clause.

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

All right. I didn't set a deadline, Clerk. I said it was to be done in time to be part of December 6. If you want to set a deadline of November 30 to have time to translate, then that's fine.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

That's right. He has to back up.

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

It gives them a couple of weeks to get it done.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

Could we have one more reading of the amendment? Does everybody understand it, as read by Mr. Ritz?

[Randy Hoback, Conservative, Prince Albert, SK]

I just want some clarification, through you, Chair, to Tracey.

What we're doing is we're not going to have any more meetings. We're just going to let those who have asked to present, but who aren't able to present, to do a written submission. That submission would be given to the committee in time for us to review it before we go through clause-by-clause consideration on December 6.

[A voice]

Right.

[Randy Hoback, Conservative, Prince Albert, SK]

The deadline is going to have to be backed up in such a way that the submissions get translated.

[The Clerk]

That would be November 30.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

If it's okay for you, Ms. Ramsey, if you took your motion back and we just agreed on this, it doesn't have to go into a motion and the whole thing, I don't think. It's up to you.

[Tracey Ramsey, NDP, Essex, ON]

I say we vote on the amendment.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

Okay.

I don't know if there's a length. Do you remember if there's a length for how long a submission could be?

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

We've had a standard size that we've required of others. I would say to make it the same.

[Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Surrey—Newton, BC]

It was five minutes, right?

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

Well, it's a written submission, so it would be however many words, whatever that is.

[Sukh Dhaliwal, Liberal, Surrey—Newton, BC]

It's written, so it should be that in print.

[The Chair, Liberal, Mark Eyking]

It would be 10 pages, maximum.

[Linda Lapointe, Liberal, Rivière-des-Mille-Îles, QC]

Is it possible to read it again, please?

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

Is the vote on the amendment or the entire motion now?

[A voice]

No, no. It's just the amendment.

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

It's just the amendment.