Evidence of meeting #86 for Transport, Infrastructure and Communities in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was aubin.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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Conservative
Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON
Madam Chair, if, after Mr. Badawey has reviewed clause 1 of Bill C-344, he has a specific amendment that he wishes to move, perhaps he could move that amendment so that we're all working off the same page.
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Liberal
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
We have permission to go back. Do we need to vote on NDP-1 as originally presented today by Mr. Aubin? We don't have to go back?
We've opened NDP-1. We need to take another vote on NDP-1 as presented by Mr. Aubin today.
(Amendment negatived [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Now we're on to the bill itself.
Shall clause 1 carry?
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Conservative
Kelly Block Conservative Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek, SK
On division.
(Clause 1 agreed to on division)
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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An hon. member
On division.
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
The bill has carried. Thank you all very much for that.
Now, one other piece of business that the clerk is insisting we talk about is Bill C-64. Since it was officially sent to us, according to the clerk, she would like us to be thinking about the witnesses for Bill C-64, which we will at some point have to deal with.
Mr. Chong.
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Conservative
Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON
Madam Chair, I would like to suggest that we call, as an individual, former MP John Weston, who proposed this in the last Parliament. He has worked long and hard on this file, so it would be good to hear his perspective on this particular piece of legislation.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
Great idea. Okay.
The clerk is asking, though, that we use the extra time to think about the witness list, since we're not going to be meeting next week or Thursday, and submit them to the clerk by January 15.
How many meetings are we going to have on Bill C-64? Can we not wait until we see what it looks like? Okay. Does anybody have any idea of the number of meetings? I don't know how big the bill is. I haven't seen it.
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Conservative
Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON
Why don't we wait until the witness list comes forward?
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
Okay, so let's start with four meetings and reassess when we see the content and the number of concerns members have.
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An hon. member
Not including the minister?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
No, not including the minister. Officials would be at a separate meeting, so there would be five meetings in total, possibly.
Is there anything else, Madam Clerk, you'd like to know? Are you good?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
Everything's good with you and our analysts?
Thank you, all.
Taking Mr. Chong's advice, I've done the best I could to move things along, and we won't be meeting Thursday of this week, nor are we going to meet next week.
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Liberal
Vance Badawey Liberal Niagara Centre, ON
We just had an agenda for the trade corridors. Can't we start that on Thursday?
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
You can start your work, getting it ready for when we come back at the end of January.
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Liberal