Evidence of meeting #132 for Natural Resources in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was peoples.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB
What I would say is that if you can guarantee and confirm a date and a time when the minister will appear here at the natural resources committee, I absolutely would love to go back to the study. If not, yes, I will continue.
Liberal
Liberal
Nick Whalen Liberal St. John's East, NL
We can just leave the motion open but not debate it right now. We'll discuss it next week, because I think Ms. Stubbs might want him twice.
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal James Maloney
We can set aside some committee business on Tuesday and deal with it then.
We can move on to witnesses.
Is that acceptable to everybody then?
NDP
Georgina Jolibois NDP Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, SK
I just want to make some points here. I've had my hand up.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal James Maloney
I saw that. I wasn't ignoring you.
Do you want to speak to something about the motion?
NDP
Georgina Jolibois NDP Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, SK
I do want to speak to this piece as well as to the motion because of the importance that all of industry.... Regardless of what province or territory we're in, the indigenous people are impacted and want to have full participation, but due to government regulations and industry's understanding, the indigenous communities always end up losing out. I'm very concerned about that.
I want to thank my colleague to my right here. Talking to the minister is very crucial because, as I'm learning and as I've seen across Canada, industry needs to occur, but indigenous communities are required to be involved.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal James Maloney
Thank you. You're welcome to come back and join us any time we're meeting.
NDP
Georgina Jolibois NDP Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, SK
I understand that. I don't appreciate the way you said it because I find that condescending, but it's really significant—
Liberal
The Chair Liberal James Maloney
What I was saying is that we're going to continue discussing this motion on Tuesday, so I welcome you to come back and participate. That was my point.
NDP
Georgina Jolibois NDP Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River, SK
But again, you're just assuming. I want to make sure that my point is made while we have this opportunity, because we're not going to have these witnesses on Tuesday and I really appreciate the witnesses who are here today with us.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal James Maloney
All right, thank you.
Are we all in agreement on how we're dealing with this motion then?
Conservative
Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB
We're all in agreement, and we're also in agreement that if that minister does not get here, this will happen every day, every time we meet.
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal James Maloney
Are your questions with respect to the motion? If they're with respect to the motion we're talking about, that's fine. Otherwise I'd like to move on and get to the witnesses.
Liberal
TJ Harvey Liberal Tobique—Mactaquac, NB
If the minister does not in fact show up on April 30, you have my full support to table the motion again.
Conservative
Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB
Thank you, Mr. Harvey. We have Albertans in all Canadians.
Mr. Chair, given how important this study is and my gratitude to the witnesses for being here, and the comments of my colleague who doesn't get to participate on a regular basis, if it's okay with you, I would cede my questioning to my NDP colleague to go ahead. Then we'll see if we can get in a follow-up round afterwards.
