Evidence of meeting #1 for Status of Women in the 45th 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.
The Clerk of the Committee Tina Miller
Honourable members of the committee, I see a quorum.
I must inform members that the clerk of the committee can only receive motions for the election of the chair. The clerk can't receive other types of motions, can't entertain points of order nor participate in debate.
We can now proceed to the election of the chair. Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the chair must be a member of the official opposition.
I'm ready to receive motions for the chair.
Madame Vien.
Conservative
Dominique Vien Conservative Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, QC
I would like to nominate Marilyn Gladu as chair.
The Clerk
It has been moved by Madame Vien that Ms. Gladu be elected chair of the committee.
Are there any further motions?
There are no other motions. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
Thank you.
I declare the motion carried and Ms. Gladu duly elected chair of the committee.
I invite Ms. Gladu to take the chair.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
I want to thank my colleagues and welcome them to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women.
It is wonderful to see you all.
I want you to know that I have been the chair of status of women before, so I do have some experience in this area. This committee does very good work. I'm sure we will build on the good work that's gone on in the past.
Normally in the first meeting, we do routine motions, which I believe were circulated. These motions pertain to how we run committees. It's how all of them are run—for example, how many minutes the Liberals get to speak, how many minutes the Conservatives get, and the order everything goes in for the first round and the second round.
I'm sorry. We first have to elect the vice-chairs. I didn't receive that on my agenda. Let's take a moment to elect our vice-chairs. We need a vice-chair for each of the parties represented.
I will turn it over to the Liberals to put someone forward to be the vice-chair.
Liberal
Marie-Gabrielle Ménard Liberal Hochelaga—Rosemont-Est, QC
I would like to nominate my colleague, Emmanuella Lambropoulos, as vice‑chair.
Conservative
The Clerk
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the first vice-chair must be a member of the government party.
I'm now prepared to receive motions for the first vice-chair.
Liberal
Bloc
Andréanne Larouche Bloc Shefford, QC
Madam Chair, there doesn't seem to be any French interpretation. On my end, I've just found the right button, but there isn't any sound.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
For anyone who doesn't know how to use these newfangled instruments, if you see that there's a language proposed and you don't like it, you can change from that language to the other one or to the floor, where you hear everything.
The volume up and down is on the left-hand side.
Is everything working, Ms. Larouche?
Bloc
Andréanne Larouche Bloc Shefford, QC
I can't hear the French interpretation right now. I've turned the volume all the way up, but I can't hear it.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
There may be an issue with your equipment.
I will speak in English to make sure that the translation is working. There's nothing.
You have to really put the volume up.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
I'll try again. Can you hear the French translation? No.
We'll suspend until we get this fixed.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
That's perfect.
We'll start the meeting again and go back to the clerk for the election of the vice-chairs.
The Clerk
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the first vice-chair must be a member of the government party.
I'm now prepared to receive motions for the first vice-chair.
Liberal
Marie-Gabrielle Ménard Liberal Hochelaga—Rosemont-Est, QC
I would like to nominate Emmanuella Lambropoulos for the position of first vice‑chair.
The Clerk
It has been moved by Ms. Ménard that Ms. Lambropoulos be elected as first vice‑chair of the committee.
Are there any further motions?
(Motion agreed to)
The Clerk
I declare the motion carried and Ms. Lambropoulos duly elected first vice‑chair of the committee.
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the second vice‑chair must be a member of an opposition party other than the official opposition.
I'm now prepared to receive motions for the second vice‑chair.
Liberal
The Clerk
It has been moved by Ms. Lambropoulos that Madame Larouche be elected as second vice-chair of the committee.
Are there any further motions?
(Motion agreed to)
I declare the motion carried and Madame Larouche duly elected second vice-chair of the committee.
Thank you.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
All right. Now I have the actual order of operations here.
Before we continue, I'd like to ask all in-person participants to consult the guidelines written on the cards on the table. These measures are in place to help prevent audio and feedback incidents and to protect the health and safety of all participants, including our wonderful interpreters. You will notice a QR code on the card, which links to a short awareness video.
For all members, please wait until I recognize your name before speaking. All comments should be addressed through the chair. I don't think there are any members on Zoom today. For members in the room, you can raise your hand. On Zoom, you can use the “raise hand” function. Thank you for that.
Now, the committee clerk has circulated a list of draft routine motions. With the agreement of the committee, we can proceed to the consideration of those motions.
What I would tell you is that these are common to all committees. As I said, these are about how questions are asked in terms of how many minutes each side gets or what you do if you don't have quorum. There is also information about travel.
There is information about the subcommittee. Most committees have a subcommittee that is made up of the vice-chairs and the chair. Essentially, they consider what we should study. They bring back a report to the committee for discussion, and it goes forward. I have seen other committees do something different. When they brought the reports back from subcommittee, there was a lot of back and forth and discussion amongst the members. We ended up deciding in that committee that all the members were going to partake in the discussion.
At the will of the committee, we can do either, but what's written in the routine motions is that it's a subcommittee composed of four members: the chair and one member from each recognized party.
We'll do them one at a time. Let's start with the first one.
The first one is on analyst services. It reads:
That the committee retain, as needed and at the discretion of the chair, the services of one or more analysts from the Library of Parliament to assist it in its work.
(Motion agreed to)
I invite the analyst to come to the table.
Welcome.
We will provide a lot of work for you this session.
Would you like some time to introduce yourself to the committee? I would love that.
