Jul. 28, 2010 - Issue #771: Young at Heart
News Roundup
Into thin air
The item "oil sands and Canada's water resource," has disappeared from the agenda of Parliament's standing committee on the environment, leaving those who testified to wonder why. With over 300 pages of testimony collected from 60 witnesses since it began a year ago, the study has been suspended one year after beginning with no explanation as to why.
Minutes from the June 17 meeting reveal the committee agreed to cease the study; no votes were recorded as the meeting was held in private, as procedure allows during the drafting of a report. It was also decided that a copy of the draft report be kept in the Committee clerk's office and the rest of the draft reports destroyed.
Liberal MP and member of the committee, Francis Scarpaleggia, has publicly condemned the Conservative members of the committee and the Harper government for preventing the report from getting out. Edmonton-Strathcona MP Linda Duncan, also a member of the committee, expressed on her website her disappointment in the lack of a report, and stated her intention to release a report of her own based on the data collected.
"I listened to some other people the same day I spoke and I know [the committee] got a lot of negative material. I'm sure that's why there's no write-up. To me that's a violation of the principles of democracy, and I'm very angry about it."
– Professor David Schindler, water expert and witness to the committee.
The Hill Times July 26, 2010
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