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Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans

NUMBER 081

1st SESSION

41st PARLIAMENT

EVIDENCE

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

[Recorded by Electronic Apparatus]

(1105)

[English]

The Chair (Mr. Rodney Weston (Saint John, CPC)):

I call this meeting to order.

I'd like to thank the officials for coming back again this week. I'm sorry for the confusion last week. Obviously, with the votes in the House it was pretty hard to predict, but we do appreciate your being here again today.

Mr. MacAulay, you wanted to raise an issue.

Hon. Lawrence MacAulay (Cardigan, Lib.):

Yes, Mr. Chair.

I want to present my motion on the lobster fishery, that, due to the current crisis—

The Chair:

Mr. MacAulay did provide this committee with proper notice on this motion. The motion that's before the committee at this point in time has been moved by Mr. MacAulay. It is:

That, due to the current crisis being faced by the Canadian lobster fishery, the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, whether or not the House of Commons is in session, immediately convene a study on the current crisis, including but not limited to hearing from witnesses such as provincial and federal fisheries officials, lobster harvesters, processors, shippers/distributors, and retailers, from Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador, that the Committee make recommendations to the government to rectify the crisis and strengthen the economic viability of lobster fishers, and that the report and recommendations be tabled in the House of Commons no later than September 2013.

Mr. Kamp.

Mr. Randy Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission, CPC):

Mr. Chair, I move that we go in camera for the consideration of this motion, as we were scheduled to do at the end of the meeting.

The Chair:

It's been moved by Mr. Kamp that this committee proceed in camera.

(Motion agreed to)

[Proceedings continue in camera]