Environment committee  I'm looking for any kind of sign from across the way that we're going to have a meaningful discussion about potentially having the minister here, and not just shut the conversation down.

Environment committee  Joe, that's fair. The Liberal members who aren't on the list continue to weigh in, so I'll continue to answer the questions if they have them, but the reality is, Joe, that we tried to have that conversation and we weren't able to have that conversation.

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, I appreciate that. I'm going to continue to make the points that I need to make with the opportunity that I have to make them. I fully respect your right as chair to turn off my mike and move to the next speaker whenever you see fit. I understand that what I'm talki

Environment committee  I will give a bit of explanation, again, and more explanation as to why this motion's so important. Take a look at the minister's mandate letter, for example. In her mandate letter, there is fairly clear direction. I will read from it: Our platform guides our government. Over

Environment committee  With respect, I've been on committee 13 years. I've served for 13 years. You're allowed some latitude, generally, to get to the point of what you're saying, and there is a point to what I'm saying here.

Environment committee  Yes, I will.

Environment committee  I agree, but in the absence of any mechanism to actually make these points.... We saw that in the last meeting. We have to follow the rules and try to make those points in whatever way we can. I think there are important points to be made here. I'll read one more sentence from t

Environment committee  I have a point of order, Mr. Chair. In the motion as I read it, which you deemed to be in order, there's a clear reference there that if the minister does agree to come to the committee in regard to supplementary estimates, then the previous request to come on this study would h

Environment committee  I have a couple of thoughts here. As I mentioned in asking for unanimous consent with the previous one, it struck me that in our process as a committee, we got in a bit of a weird situation in the last meeting because it was presented at the end of the meeting that the minister h

Environment committee  Who are they?

Environment committee  Maybe I'll put myself on the list after them. Maybe I'll pass the ball to them to say a few more words and then it will come back to me.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Stetski. I'd like to start by putting three motions on notice, if I could. I'm going to start with this one: That the Committee undertake a study of Clean Growth and Climate Change in Canada: Carbon Pricing, and that the study consist of no less than six meeti

Environment committee  I have a point of order, Mr. Chair.

Environment committee  As a very brief explanation, it seemed at the last meeting there was no mechanism to have this discussion and that's why I'm asking for unanimous consent today.

Environment committee  Okay, with that response from the Liberal members of the committee, I move: That, (a) the Minister of Environment and Climate Change appear before the Committee to discuss the Committee’s study of Clean Growth and Climate Change in Canada: Forestry, Agriculture and Waste; and,