Evidence of meeting #25 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was nene.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
The Chair (Mrs. Deborah Schulte (King—Vaughan, Lib.)) Liberal Deb Schulte
Our first order of business is to elect a new vice-chair. As Mr. Cullen is no longer a member of the committee, we need to give the floor to our clerk so we can elect a new vice-chair.
The Clerk of the Committee Ms. Cynara Corbin
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the second vice-chair must be a member of an opposition party other than the official opposition.
I am now prepared to receive motions for the second vice-chair.
Liberal
The Clerk
It has been moved by Mr. Bossio that Ms. Duncan be elected as second vice-chair of the committee. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
I declare the motion carried and Ms. Duncan duly elected second vice-chair of the committee.
NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
I have a point of order.
My colleague, Wayne Stetski, has been dealing with all matters to do with the parks and protected areas. If you were in the course of doing the business on that and it comes down to the second vice-chair having to handle it, I'm presuming that it would be Wayne and not me, so I don't know how you'd manage that.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
It's just a process. You can sub Wayne in and officially he'll be your substitute for subcommittee and—
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
He won't be the vice-chair, but he will stand in for you.
What would happen if we came down to votes?
Conservative
Ed Fast Conservative Abbotsford, BC
I don't believe that's the point. The point is, who would be sitting in your chair if neither you nor Jim are available? Right?
NDP
Linda Duncan NDP Edmonton Strathcona, AB
Wouldn't it be the person acting for me? Does that make sense? I don't know. We've never had that issue.
Anyway, I don't mean to belabour it but it's possible.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
According to the clerk, he wouldn't be able to assume the vice-chair role. That's your role. We would have to appoint an acting vice-chair, if that was an issue. All right?
Hopefully, that won't be an issue because we'll be here.
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
I try not to, but it can happen. It could happen, but we haven't seen that happen yet. We'll see how it goes.
Welcome to our witness. You're welcome to stay and listen to what we're up to, because I think you're going to be at the latter part of the meeting when we're talking about future business.
Just to do some business that we have to do before we go in camera, this coming Thursday we have the Arctic panel for our protected-area study. Ms. Mary Simon will be observing the meeting. In fact we have just been notified that one of the witnesses is now no longer able to join us. If the committee is willing and interested, we can sub her in as the witness, if she's willing. We haven't asked her yet, but I wanted to just check with you if that's okay, because we lost....
The Clerk
It's Natan Obed, who is the president of ITK. I forget the longer name. It's Inuit....
Liberal
Liberal
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
The crux of the matter is that we've lost one of our witnesses and we're wondering if the committee would be interested in having Mary Simon be a witness, if she is willing.
Do you want to give that slot to her?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
She has a lot of knowledge to share with us, and we might as well take the opportunity to have that information if we can.
