My thumb is up.
Evidence of meeting #16 for Natural Resources in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was investment.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #16 for Natural Resources in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was investment.
A recording is available from Parliament.
2:55 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal James Maloney
I was going to say, Greg, I'm assuming your thumb is up, but thank you.
(Motion agreed to)
Okay, that's great.
The only other thing I want to talk about today is our schedule for the next month and a half, mostly because during that period there are several non-sitting weeks, starting with next week. When we come back on March 22, the minister will be appearing before the committee to discuss estimates. Then on Friday, March 26, we will have another panel on this study on critical minerals. I might add some committee business at the end of that, for reasons I'll explain in a moment.
Then there's a two-week non-sitting period, and then we return on April 12. That is currently scheduled to be our last day of witnesses for this study. We don't have a further study wound up yet. By then we will have the draft report on the forestry study, which we can start looking at on Friday, April 16. I hate to say this—I'm cursing myself—but I suspect we can get that done on April 16 and no later than April 19, the Monday.
Then the question is what we are going to do after that. I am proposing that next week when we're not sitting, hopefully next Thursday, the subcommittee can meet, which would be Mr. Simard, Mr. Cannings, Mr. McLean, Mr. Lefebvre and me, at which time we can review proposals for further studies. I know some have already been put forward, but if people have any others in mind, please get them to us before March 18. Then on March 18 we can review them and come to some agreement. Then at the committee business period in the meeting on March 26, hopefully we can adopt that report, which will determine what we'll be doing after April 19. That would give everybody ample time to put their witness lists together and would allow our clerk and analysts to get everybody wound up to get rolling after that.
That is the schedule going forward. It's straightforward, but there are going to be some gaps. I thought it was important that we try to get ahead of it so we're not sitting here in April trying to plan our schedule on short notice.
Does anybody have any questions or anything they'd like to add to that? No.
Okay, that's great. I spoke to Mr. McLean earlier about this. He asked what we needed 15 minutes for. He was right.
Before anybody changes their mind, I'm going to say thank you. Enjoy the weekend and next week. I'll get an email out to those of you on the subcommittee for next Thursday and we can go from there.
I will conclude with where I started and wish everybody a happy Irish heritage month. Thanks a lot.