Official Languages committee  Are there any other motions?

Official Languages committee  Are there any other motions?

Official Languages committee  I have no power to adjourn the meeting, and there is no chair.

Official Languages committee  Honourable members of the committee, since we have quorum, we can proceed with election of a chair. I am ready to receive motions for the position of chairman.

Official Languages committee  Are there any other motions?

Official Languages committee  Are there any other motions?

Official Languages committee  Are there any other nominations? As clerk, all I can do is receive motions for the election of the chair. I cannot receive any other motion, I cannot hear any points of order and I cannot take part in your debates. I need motions for the election of the chair.

Official Languages committee  Since this is a recorded vote, I will read off members' names. (The motion is carried, 7 to 4.)

Official Languages committee  No.

Official Languages committee  I'm going to ask if there are any formal motions.

Official Languages committee  The motion reads as follows: That the Chair of the Standing Committee on Official Languages, Mr. Guy Lauzon, be relieved of his duties as Chair following a decision made on his own accord to cancel the scheduled May 8, 2007 meeting of the Committee which was to study the issue

Official Languages committee  I am quoting from page 830 of the House of Commons Procedure and Practice by Marleau and Montpetit. If no motion proposing a member for the position of chair is adopted, no other business can be transacted. When an impasse is evident, the members disperse and must be reconvened

Official Languages committee  This applies only to the chair. The vice-chairs would keep their positions, but let me quote from page 829: All of the chair's powers can be delegated to the vice-chair, but the vice-chair cannot preside over a committee meeting while the office of chair is vacant. In any cas

Official Languages committee  We are withdrawing the first motion?

Official Languages committee  I will therefore read the motion tabled by Mr. Godin, that is the second motion on the orders of the day. Is that correct, Mr. Godin?