Evidence of meeting #25 for Natural Resources in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was transition.

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On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Keith Currie  Vice-President, Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Ian London  Executive Director, Canadian Critical Minerals and Materials Alliance
Jean-François Samray  President and Chief Executive Officer, Quebec Forest Industry Council
Branden Leslie  Manager, Policy and Government Relations, Grain Growers of Canada

7:25 p.m.

Conservative

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.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal John Aldag

Mr. Simard.

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

7:25 p.m.

NDP

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

That's a residual hand.

7:25 p.m.

Bloc

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.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

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.

7:25 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

7:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal John Aldag

With that, then, we shall adjourn.