Subcommittee on the Review of the Anti-terrorism Act Committee on June 13th, 2006

[The Clerk of the Committee, Ms. Louise Hayes]

Honourable members of the subcommittee, I see a quorum.

We can now proceed to the election of a chair. According to the motion adopted by the standing committee on May 29, the chair will be a member of the governing party.

I am ready to accept motions to that effect.

[Tom Wappel, Liberal, Scarborough Southwest, ON]

Madam Clerk, I nominate Gord Brown.

[The Clerk]

It has been moved by Tom Wappel that Gord Brown be elected chair of the subcommittee.

[Dave MacKenzie, Conservative, Oxford, ON]

I second that motion.

[The Clerk]

Are there any other motions?

Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Clerk]

I declare Gord Brown duly elected chair of the subcommittee.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gord Brown]

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

I'd like to thank members of the committee for their confidence in me as the chair.

Our next order of business will be to elect a vice-chair. I'll just read the standing order.

I've been advised that it's up to the committee to decide how it wishes to deal with vice-chairs, so we'll entertain a motion or comments.

[Dave MacKenzie, Conservative, Oxford, ON]

Do you mean motions concerning how we do it, or who—or if? I think we should do it, and in that regard, I would feel comfortable if we followed what's set out in the document before us.

Having said that, I would nominate Roy Cullen as vice-chair from the official opposition.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gord Brown]

Okay. Do we have a seconder?

[Rick Norlock, Conservative, Northumberland—Quinte West, ON]

I second the motion.

[Dave MacKenzie, Conservative, Oxford, ON]

We'll need one more vice-chair.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gord Brown]

According to this document, one would be from the official opposition and one would be from another party, if this is what we're going to follow. Is that how we're going to proceed?

Mr. Cullen, do you accept that nomination?

[Roy Cullen, Liberal, Etobicoke North, ON]

Yes, thank you.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gord Brown]

All right. Is it agreed?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gord Brown]

Mr. Cullen, congratulations.

We'll move along to the other vice-chair. Do we have any nominations?

[Rick Norlock, Conservative, Northumberland—Quinte West, ON]

I nominate Serge Ménard.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gord Brown]

All right. Do we have a seconder?

[Roy Cullen, Liberal, Etobicoke North, ON]

I second the motion.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gord Brown]

All in favour please signify.

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Gord Brown]

Congratulations.

We're all ready to roll. We'll proceed to routine motions.

Seeing none, let me say we could have a discussion on how we wish to proceed with this review.

I'm sorry. We'll back up the truck.

Mr. Wappel.

[Tom Wappel, Liberal, Scarborough Southwest, ON]

It seems I could move routine motion number 1, “services of analysts from the Library of Parliament”, as written.

(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

[The Chair, Conservative, Gord Brown]

For motion number 2, have we a mover?