Natural Resources Committee on March 11th, 2020

Evidence of meeting #5 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 industry.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

The Forest Industry
Committee Business

MPs speaking

James Maloney
Cathy McLeod
Maninder Sidhu
Mario Simard
Heather McPherson
Eric Melillo
Bryan May
Gérard Deltell
Patrick Weiler
Gord Johns
Yvonne Jones

Also speaking

Arun Alexander  Director General, North America Trade Policy Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
Colin Barker  Director, Softwood Lumber Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
Michael Owen  General Counsel and Executive Director, Softwood Lumber Litigation Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
Ronnie Hayes  Senior Business Advisor, Industrial Biotech and Forestry Innovation, Multi-Sectors Practices Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
Manon Brassard  Deputy Minister and President , Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec
Gerry Salembier  Assistant Deputy Minister, British Columbia Region , Department of Western Economic Diversification
Chuck Maillet  Vice-President, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency

March 11th, 2020 / 5:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

I can assure you with absolute certainly that it has not and will not be at your expense.

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Bloc

Mario Simard Bloc Jonquière, QC

Perfect.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

Mr. Johns, you have a—

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NDP

Gord Johns NDP Courtenay—Alberni, BC

To support Mr. Simard, I have a few other questions that I'd like to ask.

Is it okay if I submit them through you, Mr. Chair?

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

If they are follow-up questions to the evidence we heard from the witnesses today, feel free to send them to the clerk and we can seek answers.

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NDP

Gord Johns NDP Courtenay—Alberni, BC

Thank you.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal James Maloney

We're going to have to stop there.

Thank you to all of our witnesses. We appreciate your taking the time. As you can see, time is a commodity that we're always short of and very precious and dear to all members of this committee.

We're grateful for your patience.

We're going to suspend for two minutes and then come back for some committee business.

[Proceedings continue in camera]