Natural Resources Committee on Feb. 19th, 2020

Evidence of meeting #1 for Natural Resources in the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Election of Vice-Chairs

Committee Business

Election of Chair

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Leif-Erik Aune

Sophie Leduc Committee Researcher

4:45 p.m.

Conservative

Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB

We're all stuck in this ridiculous situation. For the record, I hope this isn't how things are going to go overall or throughout the whole term, however long that lasts.

4:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

Mrs. Stubbs, I can't speak for what happens at other committees, I can only account for what happens here. We've already demonstrated a willingness to co-operate.

4:45 p.m.

Conservative

Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB

I totally agree, but you also have caucus meetings, and you can bring things up with your colleagues and all that stuff.

4:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

Thank you. Maybe we'll invite you as a guest speaker.

4:45 p.m.

Some hon. members

Oh, oh!

4:45 p.m.

Conservative

Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB

That would be fantastic. I tried to get in there on Vegreville and Motion No. 167, remember?

4:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

I do remember.

4:45 p.m.

Conservative

Shannon Stubbs Conservative Lakeland, AB

I tried to speak to your caucus. It's a new day.

4:45 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

Now that we have all of that out of the way, do we have an agreement that by 10 o'clock tomorrow morning I'm going to have a list of witnesses, and then I have the discretion to determine who they will be. There will be a maximum of three witnesses starting at 3:30 p.m. on Monday?

4:50 p.m.

Liberal

Patrick Weiler Liberal West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC

Agreed.

4:50 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

Agreed?

Mr. Lefebvre.

4:50 p.m.

Liberal

Paul Lefebvre Liberal Sudbury, ON

I just wish to confirm that for scheduling next Monday, we have this, and then the following Wednesday, we have a working committee to determine the next studies after that, right? We can then bring the witnesses for the forestry study, as well as other studies that we want to pursue.

Hopefully, in the meantime, we can talk to most committee members to see how we can work collaboratively on other studies. I'm sure there are a lot of things we will have a lot of collaboration on.

4:50 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

On that note, thank you everybody. It was a very good first meeting, and I look forward to seeing you on Monday.

The meeting is adjourned.