Evidence of meeting #41 for Transport, Infrastructure and Communities in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
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Liberal
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Merv Tweed
—“and every five years thereafter, the committee of the House of Commons responsible shall”—
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Merv Tweed
—“commence a comprehensive review of the provisions and operations of this Act”.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
I think that's better. It doesn't tie the hands of the transport committee.
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Conservative
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Liberal
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Merv Tweed
So is everybody in agreement with L-4 and the amendment to 3(a)?
Please comment.
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Deputy Executive Director and Senior Counsel, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
I just have a couple of technical comments, because we have to fit it within the current section.
Right now it reads “after this Act comes into force”. We should say “after this subsection”, because we're actually amending just one section of the act. The act is already in force, of course.
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Conservative
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Deputy Executive Director and Senior Counsel, Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
So it would read “subsection”, instead of “act”.
Also, could we have it as a subsection, as opposed to a new section? It's all part of the same section, the one section. So we don't want a new section in the act; we want it only to relate to the section we've been amending. So we should have it as a subsection.
11:30 a.m.
NDP
Dennis Bevington NDP Western Arctic, NT
Mr. Chair, I don't find giving an open-ended review process satisfactory at all. So I won't be voting for this motion, and I'll certainly be making sure that is part of our further work on this bill.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Merv Tweed
Okay.
With Mr. McCallum's amendment, we're going to keep it in clause 2, and it will state in paragraph 4.83(4)(a), “commence”, and we'll remove “carry out”.
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Merv Tweed
Yes.
(Amendment agreed to) [See Minutes of Proceedings]
We will now move to amendment L-3, page 11.
Mr. McCallum.
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Liberal
John McCallum Liberal Markham—Unionville, ON
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The intent of this amendment is to make sure that third countries are not added to the list—countries other than the U.S.—by regulation, and that if any country is to be added, that has to come back to Parliament for debate and approval.
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Conservative
Brian Jean Conservative Fort McMurray—Athabasca, AB
Yes, Mr. Chair.
This is the clause I was speaking to Mr. Bevington about. What I would propose--and I'm trying to get my thoughts in order here in relation to this—as an additional reach-out for Mr. Bevington on this particular one is that.... And I could give this to the clerk if it would be easier. Or would you prefer I read it out, Mr. Chair?
