Justice Committee on Nov. 13th, 2007

[The Clerk of the Committee, Ms. Miriam Burke]

Order.

Honourable members of the committee, I see a quorum. We can now proceed to the election of a chair.

I am ready to receive motions to that effect.

[Derek Lee, Liberal, Scarborough—Rouge River, ON]

I nominate Art Hanger to be chair of the justice committee.

[The Clerk]

It has been moved by Mr. Lee that Art Hanger be elected chair of the committee.

Are there further motions?

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

(Motion agreed to)

I declare the motion carried, and Mr. Hanger duly elected chair of the committee.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear!

[The Chair, Conservative, Art Hanger]

Thank you, all.

[The Clerk]

I am now prepared to receive motions for first vice-chair.

[Derek Lee, Liberal, Scarborough—Rouge River, ON]

I nominate Brian Murphy to be first vice-chair.

[The Clerk]

It has been moved by Mr. Lee that Mr. Murphy be nominated first vice-chair.

[Marlene Jennings, Liberal, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, QC]

I move that nominations be closed.

[The Clerk]

Is the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion by Mr. Lee?

(Motion agreed to)

[The Clerk]

I declare the motion carried and Mr. Murphy duly elected first vice-chair of the committee.

Let us move to the election of the second vice-chair.

[Carole Freeman, Bloc, Châteauguay—Saint-Constant, QC]

I nominate Mr. Ménard.

[The Clerk]

Mrs. Freeman nominates Mr. Ménard.

[Derek Lee, Liberal, Scarborough—Rouge River, ON]

I move that nominations be closed.

[The Clerk]

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

(The motion is carried.)

I declare the motion carried and Mr. Ménard duly elected second vice-chair of the committee.

I now invite Mr. Hanger to take the chair.

[The Chair, Conservative, Art Hanger]

Thank you, one and all.

Getting right down to business, we have some routine motions, if that's the pleasure of the committee.

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Art Hanger]

Okay. They will be distributed right now.

[Derek Lee, Liberal, Scarborough—Rouge River, ON]

On a point of order, can I ask you, Mr. Chairman and the clerk, if these routine motions are in the same form as existed for the committee before the prorogation? They're identical?

[The Clerk]

They're just guidelines, as it is--

[Derek Lee, Liberal, Scarborough—Rouge River, ON]

They're just guidelines? No, are they the same?

[The Clerk]

They're the ones that the committee adopted last time.

[Derek Lee, Liberal, Scarborough—Rouge River, ON]

Okay, thank you.

[A voice]

Except the hours of notice on the last one.

[Derek Lee, Liberal, Scarborough—Rouge River, ON]

Mr. Chairman, in the last one, with regard to notice of motion, the time period is left blank.