Evidence of meeting #1 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 39th Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was five.
The Clerk of the Committee Mr. James M. Latimer
Honourable members of the committee,
I see a quorum.
Your first order of business, pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), is the election of a chair. I am now ready to receive motions to that effect.
I'm ready to receive motions for the election of the chair.
Mr. Lunney.
Conservative
The Clerk
Mr. Lunney proposes that Mr. Keddy be the chair. Are there any further motions?
Seeing no further motions, is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
The Clerk
D'accord. I declare Mr. Keddy the duly elected chair.
Before I invite Mr. Keddy to take the chair, we'll proceed as well with the election of the vice-chairs, pursuant to Standing Order 106(2). The first vice-chair must come from the official opposition, which would be the Liberal Party.
I'm ready to receive motions to that effect.
Mr. Roy, you have the floor.
Bloc
The Clerk
Mr. Roy moves that Mr. Matthews be elected first vice-chair.
Are there any further motions for first vice-chair, from the official opposition?
Seeing no further motions, is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
The Clerk
I declare Monsieur Matthews first vice-chair.
Again, pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the office of second vice-chair must come from a party in opposition other than the official opposition.
It means that the member must be either from the Bloc Québécois or the NDP.
Mr. Blais.
The Clerk
Mr. Blais moves that Mr. Roy be elected second vice-chair.
Are there any other motions for second vice-chair?
Seeing no further motions, is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the the motion?
The Clerk
I declare Monsieur Roy second vice-chair.
I now invite Mr. Keddy to take the chair.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gerald Keddy
Gentlemen, there are a couple of pieces of housekeeping we should deal with, but before we do, I would like to thank everybody for their support.
For me as chair, and certainly for our vice-chairs--I'll speak for them as well, but they can speak for themselves quite well--and following the time-honoured tradition of the fisheries committee, the former chair, Tom Wappel, will buy all the beer. So we'll get hold of Tom and make sure he lives up to that commitment.
Conservative
John Cummins Conservative Delta—Richmond East, BC
On that note, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion that you send a letter to Mr. Wappel and thank him for his outstanding service as chairman of this committee. I think all of us who were here in the past during the time that Mr. Wappel was chairman would agree that he served with great distinction as chairman and deserves a letter from the committee referencing that. So I'd like to make that motion.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gerald Keddy
Absolutely. I think everyone is agreed with that. I'm not sure we need to make that motion. We can send the letter off.
If you'd like to see it as a motion, we could make a motion.
Conservative
John Cummins Conservative Delta—Richmond East, BC
I think you need some direction, Mr. Chairman, so I'd make the motion. I think it would be appropriate.
(Motion agreed to)
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gerald Keddy
There, that's the first motion under way.
We have a number of routine motions we should deal with at this time. I think we can deal with all of the routine motions. The only motion that may be controversial--and I'm just going to bring it up now--is our time allocation for witnesses.
We'll go through the routine motions first.
Gentlemen, I think the best format to take here is to read each one separately--the routine motions--instead of passing them all at once; then we'll all know exactly what we're talking about.
The first motion would be to retain the services of analysts from the Library of Parliament: 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.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gerald Keddy
The second routine motion is that the subcommittee on agenda and procedure be composed of the chair, the two vice-chairs, and a member of the other opposition party.
Go ahead, Mr. Stoffer.
NDP
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Gerald Keddy
No, because there's only one other opposition party. The other two opposition parties are represented by the vice-chairs.
NDP
Peter Stoffer NDP Sackville—Eastern Shore, NS
So nobody from the governing side would be there, then? In this particular case, wouldn't you try to retain your chairmanship and have somebody from the government side be there as well?
