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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
Meeting No. 62
Thursday, March 14, 2002
The Standing Committee on Health met at 11:05 a.m. this day, in Room 269, West Block, the Chair, Bonnie Brown, presiding.
Members of the Committee present: Reg Alcock, André Bachand, Bonnie Brown, Jeannot Castonguay, Stan Dromisky, James Lunney, Réal Ménard, Rob Merrifield, Hélène Scherrer, Judy Sgro, Yolande Thibeault and Judy Wasylycia-Leis.
Acting Members present: Rob Anders for Diane Ablonczy, Hedy Fry for Bob Speller and Alan Tonks for Brenda Chamberlain.
In attendance: From the Library of Parliament; Nancy Miller-Chenier and Sonya Norris, Research Officers.
Witnesses: From the Allergy/Asthma Information Association: Mary Allen. From the Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety: Dr. Doug Powell, Executive Committee Member.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the Committee resumed its study on the Labelling of Genetically Modified Foods.
The witnesses made statements and answered questions.
Rob
Merrifield moved, --That
Dr. Alan Bernstein, President of the
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), be called to appear before the
Committee to explain why the CIHR ignored Parliament by imposing new guidelines
on embryonic stem cell research just prior to the introduction of legislation,
and to justify the contradictions between the Standing Committee Report and the
new guidelines.
And debate
arising thereon,
Judy Sgro
moved, --That motion be amended by deleting all the words after the
words “before the Committee”.
The
amendment was agreed to.
The motion
as amended was agreed to.
Réal Ménard moved, --That witnesses be given ten (10) minutes for their opening statement and, that during the questioning of witnesses there be allocated seven (7) minutes for the questioners of the parties in the following order : the Canadian Alliance, the Bloc Québécois, the Liberal Party, the New Democratic Party, the Coalition PC-DR and the Liberal Party and that thereafter five(5)minutes be allocated to each subsequent questioner, alternating between opposition and government parties, at the discretion of the Chair
And debate arising thereon.
Stan Dromisky moved, --That the motion be amended by deleting the reference to “seven (7)” and replacing it with “five (5)”.
After debate, the amendment was withdrawn, with unanimous consent.
Stan Dromisky moved, --That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “thereafter” and replacing them with the following:
“time allocation be determined at the discretion of the Chair”.
After debate the motion, as amended, was agreed to.
The motion, as amended, was negatived on recorded division.
Nays: Yeas:
Reg Alcock Réal Ménard
Jeannot Castonguay Judy Wasylycia-Leis – (2)
Stan Dromisky
Hedy Fry
Judy Sgro
Yolande Thibault
Rob Anders
James Lunney
Rob Merrifield – (9)
At 12:55 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Richard Rumas
Committee Clerk