Fisheries committee  I'm sorry, but it has to be a recorded vote. (Motion agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Fisheries committee  I can provide some clarifications, Mr. Blanchette-Joncas. The meeting is on Zoom, and the House interpreters are in the small interpretation rooms in the West Block on Parliament Hill. They must have a connection to ParlVu and interpretation. This makes it impossible to operate

Fisheries committee  I also wanted to have the signatures and the approval before and have been texting the chair during the meeting. I was definitely hoping to get the budget, but I got it at the very last minute and I sent it in a distribution to your P9 and all your staff as soon as I had a chance

Fisheries committee  That's correct. For any study, as soon as a committee has witnesses or expenses, it has to adopt a budget. Because the committee only had the Big Bar Pacific salmon officials in February or March, there was no cost. As soon as the members want to invite witnesses to a study, th

Fisheries committee  Yes, the committee is meeting by video conference, but the audio feed is for the staff, in order to listen to the meeting and not have the delay that comes with ParlVU. There is now a fee, and every single committee has to pay for their own lines. Regarding that fee that you see

Fisheries committee  That's an excellent question, and I thank you very much. Indeed, the good news is that up to today, we could not deliver headsets, but now we do have headsets. If the committee does adopt the budget, then the committee will be in a position to call witnesses ahead of time. If th

Fisheries committee  Just to clarify, Mr. Chair, to be aligned with the motion adopted by the House, if the members are okay with the two budgets at the end, I will have to do a recorded vote.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Paish, I believe your language selected on your computer could be French.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Lanteigne—

Fisheries committee  Mr. Lanteigne, if you speak in French, I'd ask you to choose French at the bottom of your screen. If you speak in English afterwards, please change channels at that time.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, you don't have to suspend. You can reconnect very quickly.

Fisheries committee  There we go. Mr. Cormier is with us.

Fisheries committee  The minister was invited for COVID. Normally the members ask questions related to the study. However, if the members ask questions outside the scope of the study and the minister wants to answer them, she can.

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry, but I will have to intervene because the chair has asked that the vice-chair take the chair. Can Ms. Gill take the floor?

Fisheries committee  If it is the will of the committee to continue with witnesses on this particular study, that would be great, but I would like to have specific directions from the committee or the chair.