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STANDING COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES AND OCEANS
COMITÉ PERMANENT DES PÊCHES ET DES OCÉANS
EVIDENCE
[Recorded by Electronic Apparatus]
Wednesday, October 4, 2000
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[English]
The Clerk of the Committee: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, honourable members. I see a quorum present.
Your first item of business is to select a chair. I'm ready to receive motions to that effect.
Mr. Stoffer.
Mr. Peter Stoffer (Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore, NDP): The NDP would like to nominate Mr. Wayne Easter from Malpeque as chair of our committee.
(Motion agreed to)
The Clerk: I invite Mr. Easter to take the chair.
The Chair (Mr. Wayne Easter (Malpeque, Lib.): Thank you very much for your support.
I open the floor for nominations for first vice-chair.
Mr. John Cummins (Delta—South Richmond, Canadian Alliance): I nominate John Duncan.
Mr. Lawrence D. O'Brien (Labrador, Lib.): I second that.
(Motion agreed to)
The Chair: I open the floor for nominations for second vice-chair. Lawrence.
Mr. Lawrence O'Brien: I nominate Sarkis.
The Chair: Sarkis Assadourian has been nominated. Do we need a seconder?
The Clerk: No.
The Chair: Do you have a problem?
Mr. Yvan Bernier (Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Pabok, BQ): Yes. I would like to propose Nancy Karetak-Lindell.
The Chair: We'll have to deal with the first motion first. If it's defeated, we'll deal with the second.
Mr. Yvan Bernier: We need a woman.
The Chair: I agree.
(Motion agreed to)
Mr. John Cummins: Point of order.
The Chair: Yes, I'll listen to your point of order.
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Mr. John Cummins: Mr. Chairman, at the last meeting I made a request of the associate deputy minister, Jack Stagg, and he undertook to provide the committee with the catch data on the food fishery in Malpeque Bay and the date on which it reached its catch limit. I was wondering if we had received that information from him at this point.
The Chair: We haven't received it as yet, but I'll check, John.
Mr. John Cummins: And the second item I had asked him for was the copies of the 1760-61 treaties and the corresponding modern beneficiaries of those treaties. I wondered if those had been provided to this point.
The Chair: We'll check on both those points. It was said at committee that they would be obtained, so we'll check on those two items.
Mr. John Cummins: I wonder if you could ask him to provide those quickly, Mr. Chairman. I think he's had plenty of time.
The Chair: The clerk of the committee did indeed phone, and we'll check it. I'll make a call as soon as I leave here.
Mr. John Cummins: Thank you very much.
The Chair: With that, the meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much.