“The ENVI Committee was scheduled to report back to the House of Commons (HOC) on October 22 2009 indicating their thoughts in a report on Bill C-311. [...]

Last week’s occurrence regarding the need to vote in the chairs and vice chairs of the committees did not help.

At the rate they are progressing, and with nearly 50 witnesses in line to be heard, they will never be ready to report to the HOC. They determined that they needed to be granted an extension, this was the motion from yesterday. This was approved by the Committee (we don’t know how each person voted as it was done in camera) and this recommendation for a 30 day extension needs to be presented to the HOC. This will be done on Monday and since the process requires some debate and discussion, and the house is not sitting the week after, we will not know the answer to this request until October 21 2009.

On Thursday, the schedule indicates that the topic of Bill C-311 will be discussed. It is conceivable that they may decide to take an interest in moving forward with a degree of urgency, but this is not a given.

We are urging them to act with expediency, get the meetings scheduled, call the witnesses, and focus on Bill C-311 and nothing else. Our hope is that they will find it in themselves to put politics aside in the interest of the planet.”

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