Canadian Industrial Sectors

By unanimous consent, it was ordered, — That the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology create a subcommittee whose membership will be composed of five (5) members, with two (2) from the Conservative Party, one (1) from the Liberal Party, one (1) from the Bloc Québécois, and one (1) from the New Democratic Party, and that the Chair be from the Conservative Party; that the subcommittee have all the powers and authority of the Standing Committee to undertake a study of the crisis faced by certain industrial sectors in Canada such as aerospace, energy, forestry, high-tech, and manufacturing, with the understanding that any legislation referred to the full committee take precedence over the work of the subcommittee, that the subcommittee not meet at the same time as the full committee, that the subcommittee report its findings and recommendations to the main committee, and that the main committee present the report to the House within ten sitting days.