Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry
First Session, Forty-second Parliament, 2015-16-17-18
Chair: The Honourable DIANE F. GRIFFIN
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Issue No. 41
Consideration of a draft agenda (future business)
Twenty-first meeting:
Study on the acquisition of farmland in Canada and its potential impact on the farming sector
Third meeting:
Government Response to the Ninth Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, entitled: The Importance of Bee Health to Sustainable Food Production in Canada, tabled and adopted in the Senate on May 28, 2015
Thirty-first meeting:
Study the potential impact of the effects of climate change on the agriculture, agri-food and forestry sectors
INCLUDING:
THE NINTH REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
(Special Study Supplementary Budget 2017-2018 (Climate change) - Travel activity to Vancouver (BC) and Calgary (AB))
APPEARING
Thursday, February 8, 2018
The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, P.C., M.P., Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food.
WITNESSES
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Health Canada:
Richard Aucoin, Executive Director, Pest Management Regulatory Agency;
Scott Kirby, Director General, Environmental Assessment Directorate, Pest Management Regulatory Agency.
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada:
Chris Forbes, Deputy Minister.
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
The Honourable Diane F. Griffin, Chair
The Honourable Ghislain Maltais, Deputy Chair
and
The Honourable Senators:
Ataullahjan, Dagenais, *Day (or Mercer), Doyle, Gagné, *Harder, P.C. (or Bellemare) (or Mitchell), Mercer, Oh, Petitclerc, Pratte, *Smith (or Martin), *Woo (or Saint-Germain)
*Ex officio members
(Quorum 4)
Changes in membership of the committee:
Pursuant to rule 12-5 and to the order of the Senate of November 7, 2017, membership of the committee was amended as follows:
The Honourable Senator Woo replaced the Honourable Senator Omidvar (February 1, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Omidvar replaced the Honourable Senator Woo (January 31, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Ataullahjan was added to the membership (January 31, 2018).
The Honourable Senator Eaton was removed from the membership of the committee, substitution pending (January 31, 2018).