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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS

Meeting No. 30

Tuesday, April 5, 2005

The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade met at 9:07 a.m. this day, in Room 308 West Block, the Chair, Bernard Patry, presiding.

Members of the Committee present: Hon. Maurizio Bevilacqua, Stockwell Day, Alexa McDonough, Hon. Dan McTeague, Pierre A. Paquette, Bernard Patry, Beth Phinney, Kevin Sorenson and Belinda Stronach.

Acting Members present: Nicole Demers for Francine Lalonde, Peter Goldring for Ted Menzies and Roger Valley for Lawrence MacAulay.

In attendance: Library of Parliament: Gerald Schmitz, Principal.

Witnesses: Department of Foreign Affairs: Robert McDougall, Director, Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division; Phillip J. Baines, Senior Advisor, Sciences and Technology, Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division; Bruce Mann, Senior Counsel, Justice Legal Services Division. Department of National Defence: Myriam Roberge, Directorate of Space Development, Policy, Strategy and Cooperation. Canadian Space Agency: Luc Brulé, Director, Earth Observation Projects, Space Programs.

Pursuant to the Order of Reference of Tuesday, December 7, 2004, the Committee resumed consideration of Bill C-25, An Act governing the operation of remote sensing space systems.

The Committee resumed its clause-by-clause study of the Bill.

Robert McDougall, Phillip Baines and Bruce Mann answered questions.

On Clause 20,

Alexa McDonough moved, — That Bill C-25, in Clause 20, be amended by adding after line 21 on page 16 the following:

“(g.1) respecting the archiving of raw data, including the public access to the archived data;”

Debate arose thereon.

On motion of Alexa McDonough, it was agreed, — That Bill C-25, in Clause 20, be amended by adding after line 21 on page 16 the following:

“(g.1) respecting the archiving of raw data, including the public access to the archived data;”

Clause 20, as amended, carried.

Clause 21 carried.

Clause 22 carried.

Clause 23 carried.

Clause 24 carried.

Clause 25 carried.

Clause 26 carried.

Clause 27 carried.

Clause 28 carried.

Clause 29 carried.

Clause 30 carried.

Clause 31 carried.

Clause 32 carried.

Clause 33 carried.

Clause 34 carried.

Clause 35 carried.

On Clause 36,

Alexa McDonough moved, — That Bill C-25, in Clause 36, be amended by replacing line 37 on page 22 with the following:

“may be commenced later than seven years after”

Debate arose thereon.

On motion of Alexa McDonough, it was agreed, — That Bill C-25, in Clause 36, be amended by replacing line 37 on page 22 with the following:

“may be commenced later than seven years after”

Clause 36, as amended, carried.

Clause 37 carried.

Clause 38 carried.

Clause 39 carried.

Clause 40 carried.

Clause 41 carried.

Clause 42 carried.

Clause 43 carried.

Clause 44 carried.

Clause 45 carried.

On Clause 45.1,

Pierre A. Paquette moved, — That Bill C-25 be amended by adding after line 7 on page 25 the following new clause:

“45.1 (1) The Minister shall cause an independent review of the provisions and operation of this Act to be conducted from time to time in order to assess, in particular, its impact on technological development and on the implementation of international agreements and treaties.

(2) The Minister shall cause the report on a review conducted under subsection (1) to be laid before each House of Parliament within two years after the coming into force of this Act, and within every three-year period after the tabling of a report under this subsection.”

Debate arose thereon.

Dan McTeague moved, — That the amendment be amended at paragraph (2) by replacing the word “two” with the word “five” and the word “three” with the word “five”.

Debate arose thereon.

After debate, the question was put on the subamendment of Dan McTeague and it was agreed to.

After debate, the question was put on the amendment of Pierre A. Paquette, as amended, and it was agreed to.

Clause 45.1, as amended, carried.

Alexa McDonough moved, — That Bill C-25 be amended by adding after line 7 on page 25 the following new clause:

“45.2 The Minister shall cause to be laid before each House of Parliament, on any of the first fifteen days on which that House is sitting after September 30 next following the end of each fiscal year, a report that contains the following information with respect to that fiscal year:

(a) the number and cost of images purchased by the Government of Canada;

(b) the number of orders in council issued under subsection 2(2);

(c) a description of each violation referred to in section 23 that was committed, including the amount of the penalty that was imposed and the name, address and telephone number of the person who committed the violation;

(d) the amount of the outstanding penalties;

(e) the amount of the penalties collected; and

(f) a description of the regulations made under this Act, including a description of any amendments to these regulations, their enforcement and any decisions made by the Minister in accordance with the Act. ”

Debate arose thereon.

The question was put on the amendment of Alexa McDonough and it was negatived.

Clause 45.2 was negatived.

Clause 46 carried.

Clause 47 carried.

The Short Title carried.

The Title carried.

The Bill, as amended, carried on division.

ORDERED, — That the Chair report the Bill, as amended, to the House.

ORDERED, — That Bill C-25, as amended, be reprinted for the use of the House at report stage.

The Committee proceeded to the consideration of matters related to Committee business.

At 9:39 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 9:39 a.m., the sitting resumed.

At 9:40 a.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.

Andrew Bartholomew Chaplin
Clerk of the Committee

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