Natural Resources Committee on Feb. 12th, 2024

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

You have an incredibly skilled workforce, certainly, in the offshore. Argentia has done a lot of great work. It's really important for us as Canadians to make sure those skills are able and are transferable. Are you looking at whether or not some of your operations could help—certainly in the construction projects and that—if offshore wind is happening? That's what we're seeing happen in Aberdeen off the North Sea, that there is a lot of transference of skill and expertise.

[Paul Barnes]

Most definitely. I've had the opportunity to visit the Argentia construction facility that's now constructing the west white rose project, and the labourers involved in that are doing an excellent job. Many of the skills being used to construct that offshore facility I'm sure can be transferable to other renewable sectors.

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

Thank you very much for that.

Ms. Inniss, for my final question, I've been asking because the issue of the fisheries—

[The Chair, Liberal, George Chahal]

Mr. Angus, we are—

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

You've giving me a red card? Come on, boss, after all how polite I've been...? Come on.

[The Chair, Liberal, George Chahal]

Yes, you've been great, but the time is up.

Thank you for your questions.

I want to thank all the witnesses for coming to committee today.

[Clifford Small, Conservative, Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, NL]

I have a point of order, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, George Chahal]

You can provide testimony through a brief. If something was missed, you can provide additional information through a brief.

We have a point of order from Mr. Small.

[Clifford Small, Conservative, Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, NL]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

When the notice of meeting came out, it was laid out that we would have three hours in total for this session. We started at four o'clock, so we should be going till seven to make up our full three hours.

[The Chair, Liberal, George Chahal]

Thank you for your point of order, Mr. Small. The allotted time was until 6:30, based on the schedule and our two panels. As you know, the first panel was—

[Shannon Stubbs, Conservative, Lakeland, AB]

On a point of order, Mr. Chair, we would support going for another half-hour.

[The Chair, Liberal, George Chahal]

The panel—

[Clifford Small, Conservative, Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, NL]

It's a half an hour to voting.

[The Chair, Liberal, George Chahal]

I'm sorry, Mr. Small. This is not a debate.

[Clifford Small, Conservative, Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame, NL]

It's not a debate.

[The Chair, Liberal, George Chahal]

You had a point of order. I'm giving you an answer to your point of order.

We had a time allotment until 6:30. If a member would like to continue, they can ask for the consent of the committee to continue further. Otherwise, we are at our allotted time of 6:30, and I would like to let the panel members, our witnesses who have waited very patiently have an opportunity to go.

If there is unanimous consent—

[Ted Falk, Conservative, Provencher, MB]

Mr. Chair, I'd like to move a motion to have unanimous consent to extend our meeting until seven o'clock.

[The Chair, Liberal, George Chahal]

Okay. We do have an ask for unanimous consent to continue.

[Some hon. members]

No.

[Ted Falk, Conservative, Provencher, MB]

The Liberal-NDP don't want to continue this important discussion. We have witnesses here—

[The Chair, Liberal, George Chahal]

Mr. Falk, I will ask you to....

Once again, you had a point of order, and you were recognized. There was not unanimous consent to continue this evening.

We have another point of order.

Go ahead, Ms. Jones.

[Yvonne Jones, Liberal, Labrador, NL]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Normally we would be very co-operative, but the Conservatives delayed the committee by two hours today, so they can't have it both ways. They've had two and a half hours to ask questions of what this—

[Shannon Stubbs, Conservative, Lakeland, AB]

Mr. Chair, I wouldn't talk about indigenous-led initiatives as delaying the committee.

[Yvonne Jones, Liberal, Labrador, NL]

Could you please turn off your microphone? I'm speaking. It's so rude, and the translators can't hear both of us.

[Shannon Stubbs, Conservative, Lakeland, AB]

I know. It's horrible when someone does back to you what you did.