Evidence of meeting #55 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 building.

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On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Diane Griffin  Retired Senator, As an Individual
Gregory Smith  Director, Economic Analysis Division, Canadian Forest Service, Department of Natural Resources
Stéphan Déry  Assistant Deputy Minister, Real Property Services, Department of Public Works and Government Services
Jean-Rock Tourigny  Acting Director General, Technical Services, Real Property Services, Department of Public Works and Government Services
Clerk of the Committee  Geneviève Desjardins
Ross Linden-Fraser  Committee Researcher

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Committee Researcher

Ross Linden-Fraser

Thank you for the question.

I believe you are referring to the Western Climate Initiative. If the committee wishes to meet with California officials, we can certainly find people with whom the committee could discuss the initiative.

5:20 p.m.

Bloc

Mario Simard Bloc Jonquière, QC

I think that could be quite relevant.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal John Aldag

I think there was a location in northern California, a site visit that was also deemed to be of interest, so we could see about doing that if we're narrowing it down to three locations.

What I'm hearing is this: We'll take Washington off the list now. We'll cost out Houston, Denver and Sacramento, and then we'll bring forward the final costed budget for comment and perhaps approval on Friday so that we can transmit it by the deadline to liaison.

Is that okay? All right. Good.

That's all I have for today. On Friday we'll continue with Bill S-222. We have one panel with one witness from each of the parties. I think everybody got their first choice except for the Bloc. Theirs wasn't available, so we have their second choice coming. There will be four panellists.

The second hour is reserved for clause-by-clause. In this case, I think there's one clause, so it'll be the “clause” review. Then we'll do the budget discussion and that will be the end of our time together this week.

Thanks, everybody. With that, the meeting is adjourned.