Natural Resources Committee on June 1st, 2022

[Richard Bragdon, Conservative, Tobique—Mactaquac, NB]

I would recommend that we do go into the next part of the meeting for sure, Mr. Chair.

But I'll just say this in regard to that. We're all for getting the 12 sessions in and, obviously, as Conservatives, making sure that we hear from as many witnesses as possible. But I really feel that we don't want to be coming across as if certain sets of witnesses are more important than other sets of witnesses. We've been hearing from very qualified witnesses from all across the span, who have been brought forward to this committee so far, and we're hearing very valuable insights. They may not line up with everyone's ideology, but we're hearing important and pertinent information from the labour perspective, from the industry perspective and from other perspectives and regional perspectives.

I've got lots of witnesses whom I submitted for the committee to consider and who haven't been called yet. I'm hoping they will, but I'm not going to filibuster based on that at this point, so let's hopefully get this to subcommittee and come to a reasonable conclusion.

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, John Aldag]

Mr. Simard.

Mr. Angus, is that a residual hand raised or is it a new hand?

[Charlie Angus, NDP, Timmins—James Bay, ON]

That's a residual hand.

[Mario Simard, Bloc, Jonquière, QC]

I just want to clarify one point.

My colleague Mr. Angus was saying earlier that we had an agreement on witnesses in the previous study, but that was not the case. We had an agreement on the subject of the study, but we did not have an agreement on the witnesses we would call. That's another thing entirely.

I suppose there are precedents as to operating guidelines. We can all report to our whips. I would recommend that we now move to the closed session portion of the meeting and then we can discuss it. If we're in camera, maybe that will cool things down for some.

[The Chair, Liberal, John Aldag]

Perfect.

I'm happy to adjourn and take the next part of the conversation to subcommittee, if people are fine with that.

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Liberal, John Aldag]

With that, then, we shall adjourn.