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International Trade committee The department officials and the meeting that was to take place on December 6 were switched. So the department officials would be on December 6, and the meeting that was scheduled to be on December 6 is now on December 11. So they just switched.
November 29th, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk of the Committee
International Trade committee The question is on the main motion. Can I dispense with reading it?
November 27th, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee (Motion agreed to: yeas 6; nays 3)
November 27th, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee All right, I'll try to read it in English: That the committee recommend that no ratification agreement between Canada and Colombia be signed without the Minister of International Trade and appropriate witnesses being called forthwith to testify before the committee on how envir
November 27th, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee Mr. Chairman, the motion would read as follows: That the Committee recommends that no ratification of the bilateral trade agreement between Canada and Colombia be signed until the Minister of International Trade is called to testify before the Committee on how human rights conc
November 27th, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee My translation of this could be refined, but the intention of what I heard from Mr. Cardin is that the committee recommend that no ratification agreement between Canada and Colombia be signed until.... Then we continue with the motion as moved by Mr. Bains. Is there an ending a
November 27th, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk of the Committee
International Trade committee The motion as amended would read: That the Standing Committee on International Trade conduct extensive hearings on the implications of the Canada–Korea bilateral agreement currently being negotiated, specifically hearing testimony from a wide variety of sectors and diverse regi
November 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee The supply period ends December 10, but the rules say the committee has to report, or only has until three days prior to the designation of the final allotted day to consider the estimates, so whenever the government designates the final supply day, the committee has to backtrack
November 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee It hasn't been designated as of now.
November 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee I just cleaned up some of the wording at the end a little bit. It would read: That the Standing Committee on International Trade conduct extensive hearings on the implications of the Canada-Korea bilateral agreement currently being negotiated, specifically hearing testimony fro
November 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee Mr. Chair, thank you for the question. I wouldn't presume to know the members' intentions. My reading of the rules is that once any report is reported back to the House, if any member wants to give notice of concurrence in that report they can do so. And once the notice for a m
November 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee And then once that motion is moved, then there's a three-hour debate on that.
November 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee I wouldn't presume to know that. That's....
November 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee Thank you Mr. Chairman. As I understand it, the motion as worded would be tabled to the House, as you said. Mr. Pallister's amendment—and you can correct me if I'm wrong—would mean that a report would be tabled to the House only upon completion of the study.
November 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk
International Trade committee No, I was just saying that if I'm wrong then you can clarify that.
November 22nd, 2007Committee meeting
The Clerk