Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, would you want some clarifications from me?

Fisheries committee  Just to make sure that procedurally you have all the correct information, the committee is now meeting by video conference on Zoom, according to the motion that was adopted by the House on May 26. That motion does not prevent the committee from meeting again in August or Septembe

Fisheries committee  If the committee were to say today that they want to meet sooner—because from what I hear, this committee would want to discuss the Pacific salmon sooner than later—then the committee can definitely discuss adding more meetings anywhere between now and later in early September be

Fisheries committee  I am sorry, Mr. Mirau. Would it be possible for you to move the microphone a bit?

Fisheries committee  Would you like to suspend for a few seconds, Mr. Chair?

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, could you suspend for a few seconds?

Fisheries committee  Mr. Hill, would it be possible to bring your microphone closer to your mouth?

Fisheries committee  Thank you.

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry; the sound is a bit bad for me right now, but what I hear and understand from the question is that there will be witnesses on Pacific salmon Thursday, and then two more meetings in August. Then, we do not have dates in September. The motion adopted by the House is that

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair—

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry for the delay. It's because of my technical issues. To answer Mr. Morrissey, he asked if we still had witnesses. I still have witnesses from most parties, but some parties are running low. I suggest, for example, that the Liberals are running low, and if they wanted to

Fisheries committee  Yes. From a procedural standpoint, in order to respect the order of the House, decisions have to be taken by recorded vote. If it's all right with you, we'll proceed with a recorded vote.

Fisheries committee  We've already had one meeting with the officials, and that was mostly on Big Bar. Then we had two meetings on Big Bar, including today. Tomorrow will be a meeting on Pacific salmon more generally, and at the end of that meeting, time will be taken in camera so that you can sugges

Fisheries committee  If I can add, Mr. Chair, the dates of the meetings are not going to be decided by the committee. They will be suggested by the committee, but in the end the whips will agree on the calendar and on the dates.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. The vote is on the adoption of the two budgets for the Big Bar Pacific salmon study and for the study on the impacts of COVID-19. (Motion agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])