Evidence of meeting #1 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Absolutely.
That would leave us with the chair, the two vice-chairs, and one other government member.
Is that correct, Mr. Lukiwski?
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Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
Yes, but I would just like to add “the parliamentary secretary”.
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Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
Yes, in addition to; I'm just counting the numbers here.
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The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
All right. So it now reads:
That the Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure be composed of the Chair, the two Vice-Chairs, one government member and the parliamentary secretary.
To that motion, all in favour?
(Motion as amended agreed to)
Great.
I'm not sure what “Meeting without a quorum” is:
That the Chair be authorized to hold meetings to receive and publish evidence when a quorum is not present, provided that at least three (3) members are present, including one member of the opposition.
Oh, I understand what this is.
Mr. Reid.
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Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
With this one, I just want to confirm that this doesn't mean that we can't have a regular meeting with a regular quorum for the purpose of hearing testimony.
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The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
I don't take it to say that, but we'll have that discussion. I take it that if there's a reduced number of people in the room and we have witnesses, we could still hear from them. That's what this is trying to say.
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Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
So this gives us another option for that purpose only, but does not tie us to that. I suppose, by definition....
Now that I think about it, it's a silly question. Of course we've had witnesses in the past with full membership.
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The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Right. It allows us to hear from witnesses with a reduced quorum so that if witnesses are here and we don't have many, we can still hear from them.
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Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
Okay.
Having just asked this really silly question, I should ask, these aren't televised meetings, right?
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Some hon. members
Oh, oh!
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Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
No, I meant this meeting.
That's fine. I should have thought that through.
Thanks.
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The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
But this allows us a reduced quorum to hear testimony from witnesses.
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Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
Perhaps we could have “including one member of the opposition and at least one member of the government”.
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The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Okay. You want to add that there be at least three members present, including one member of the opposition and one member of the government.
