International Trade Committee on Nov. 22nd, 2016

Evidence of meeting #46 for International Trade in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was going.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Subject Matter of Bill C-30, An Act to implement the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union and its Member States and to provide for certain other measures

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Philippe Méla Legislative Clerk

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Rémi Bourgault

Pierre Marc Johnson Chief Negotiator of the Government of Québec for the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and Counsel, Lavery, de Billy, As an Individual

Jason Langrish Executive Director, Canada Europe Round Table for Business

Louise Barrington Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, As an Individual

Martin Valasek Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, As an Individual

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Conservative

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.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

Go ahead.

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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.

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Conservative

Gerry Ritz Conservative Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK

That's fine.

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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.

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Conservative

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.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

That's right. He has to back up.

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Conservative

Gerry Ritz Conservative Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK

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

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

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

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Conservative

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.

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A voice

Right.

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Conservative

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.

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The Clerk

That would be November 30.

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Liberal

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.

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NDP

Tracey Ramsey NDP Essex, ON

I say we vote on the amendment.

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Liberal

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?

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Conservative

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.

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Liberal

Sukh Dhaliwal Liberal Surrey—Newton, BC

It was five minutes, right?

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Conservative

Gerry Ritz Conservative Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK

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

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Liberal

Sukh Dhaliwal Liberal Surrey—Newton, BC

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

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Mark Eyking

It would be 10 pages, maximum.

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Liberal

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

Is it possible to read it again, please?

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Liberal

Kyle Peterson Liberal Newmarket—Aurora, ON

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

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A voice

No, no. It's just the amendment.

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Conservative

Gerry Ritz Conservative Battlefords—Lloydminster, SK

It's just the amendment.