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CANADA
Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food
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EVIDENCE
Monday, November 19, 2007
[Recorded by Electronic Apparatus]
(1605)
[English]
I'll call us to order.
Mr. Miller, would you move your motion onto the floor and read it into the record? It's been circulated.
Mr. Chairman, thank you.
I'd like to move the following:
That the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food request that the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food conduct a full review of all inspection fees charged by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and; that this information be used by the Minister to investigate possible options for the government to deal with the inequity between what Canadian Livestock Producers and Packing Plants pay for inspection fees as compared to their counterparts in the United States.
Mr. Chairman, we are in agreement with the motion in general, although I would like to move an amendment.
I move that the motion be amended in the third line by inserting, after the word “be”, the words “shared with the standing committee on agriculture and”.
[Translation]
I think that, in French, at the end of the third line, after the word "Ministre," the words “partage cette information avec le Comité permanent de l'agriculture et l'” have to be inserted.
[English]
Oh, forget the “l'”; you don't need it.
Sure. I'll read it to you, as follows:
That the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food request that the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food conduct a full review of all inspection fees charged by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and; that this information be shared with the Committee and used by the Minister to investigate possible options for the government to deal with the inequity between what Canadian Livestock Producers and Packing Plants pay for inspection fees as compared to their counterparts in the United States.
That makes it easy. It's a friendly amendment.
Are there any other comments or discussion?
(Motion as amended agreed to)