Transport Committee on April 20th, 2021

[The Chair, Liberal, Vance Badawey]

Thank you, Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Field.

Folks, we've come to the end of the meeting.

First off, I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the witnesses. You've spent two hours with us today. We truly appreciate the time you've taken out of your busy schedules to come to participate in the study, and thus in the final report that we're hoping will reach the floor of the House of Commons sooner rather than later.

To members as well, thank you for your participation and interventions today. Once again, it was a very productive meeting at the transport, infrastructure and communities committee.

With that, before I adjourn this meeting, members, I want to remind you of the aircraft certification study we're finalizing. I'd like to take a moment to remind you that we have distributed the report on the aircraft certification study to each member, and if members have any suggestions for edits....

What I'm trying to do here, folks, is to expedite the meeting that we would otherwise have when the analysts bring back the draft, and not spend a lot of time discussing any changes that you want to make. I'd prefer to do that beforehand, so if any member has suggestions for edits based on what you have received, it would be extremely helpful if you could submit those to the clerk so that we can have them in writing in both official languages for when the committee begins consideration on that draft report.

Along the topic of reports, the analysts will soon be drafting the report for our the study on the Canada Infrastructure Bank. It would be helpful for the analysts if members could submit their drafting instructions to the clerk upon receiving that draft report as well.

I'll leave it there. Do members have any questions on that?

[Taylor Bachrach, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

I just have a quick question, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Vance Badawey]

Sure, Taylor.

[Taylor Bachrach, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

In your last comment, you said that we should submit drafting instructions upon receiving a copy of the draft report. I'm just wondering about the timing of drafting instructions for the report, which I assume would come before the draft.

[The Chair, Liberal, Vance Badawey]

Mr. Clerk, do you want to comment on that?

[The Clerk of the Committee, Mr. Michael MacPherson]

Mr. Bachrach is quite correct. If we could receive any drafting instructions, just send them to the committee's general email, and I'll forward them to the analysts, which will really give them a leg up and a real hand in drafting the report.

[Taylor Bachrach, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

Mr. Chair, perhaps through you to the clerk, is there a timeline on that? Obviously, it's as soon as possible, it sounds like.

[The Chair, Liberal, Vance Badawey]

Thanks, Taylor. It's a great question.

Mr. Clerk, we have a calendar of events that we're going to be presenting to the committee at our business planning session, and we're trying to do that on Tuesday, taking a half near the end of the meeting on Tuesday to discuss some preliminary business. With that, we'll establish that calendar, I'm assuming—albeit we are going to have the first report within the next month or so before the committee, once the drafting instructions and edits are made by members of the committee.

Following that, the next report, I'm assuming, is going to be a few weeks after that, Taylor, so depending on what's is talked about on Tuesday at our business planning session, I'm hoping to have that, with respect to your question about timing, within the next, say, four or five weeks on that second report.

[Taylor Bachrach, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Vance Badawey]

Am I accurate on that, Mr. Clerk?

[The Clerk]

Yes, on all of that, but for the Canada Infrastructure Bank study in particular, I believe it would be useful for the analysts if we could have any drafting instructions within the next week or so. That would really be helpful.

[The Chair, Liberal, Vance Badawey]

Okay. Is that fine, Taylor?

Excellent. Are there any further questions?

Once again to the witnesses, thank you very much for your time today. It is very much appreciated.

To the members, thank you for your interventions.

Everyone, have a great night.

We're adjourned.