Evidence of meeting #1 for Fisheries and Oceans in the 40th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was chair.
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The Clerk of the Committee Ms. Julia Lockhart
Honourable members of the committee, I see a quorum. We can now proceed to the election of the chair.
I'm prepared to receive motions to that effect.
Conservative
Randy Kamp Conservative Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission, BC
I'd like to nominate Rodney Weston as chair.
The Clerk
It has been moved by Mr. Kamp that Mr. Rodney Weston be elected chair.
Are there any other motions?
Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
The Clerk
Before I invite Mr. Rodney Weston to take the chair, if it's the pleasure of the committee we can proceed to the election of vice-chairs. We'll start with the first vice-chair, who must be a member of the official opposition.
Monsieur Lévesque.
Raynald Blais Bloc Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC
The first vice-chair must be a member of the official opposition party.
The Clerk
It has been moved by Mr. Pearson that Mr. MacAulay be the first vice-chair of the committee.
Are there any other motions?
Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
The Clerk
The second vice-chair must be a member of a party other than the official opposition.
Bloc
The Clerk
Mr. Lévesque has proposed Mr. Blais.
Are there any other motions?
Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
The Clerk
Mr. Blais is the second vice-chair of the committee.
I'll now invite Mr. Rodney Weston to take the chair.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rodney Weston
To start off, I want to say welcome to everyone. Thank you for choosing me as your chair this morning.
We have a few items of routine business that we need to go through this morning. There are routine motions that were adopted by the committee in the previous session. We're handing out at this point a copy of those motions. We can consider these motions on an individual basis. We can go through them. If there are any discussions or if any amendments need to be made to the various motions, we can deal with those one at a time.
We don't have a large agenda this morning. It's going to be fairly quick, providing we're able to proceed through these motions.
Once again, thank you very much. Welcome to the vice-chairs. I look forward to working with all the members of the committee, and the vice-chairs as well. Hopefully we'll be able to achieve some really good things for the industry here in this great country.
To begin with, we'll start out with the first motion, the services of analysts from the Library of Parliament. The motion was that the committee retain, as needed and at the discretion of the chair, the services of analysts from the Library of Parliament to assist in its work.
Is there any discussion on the motion?
Monsieur Blais.
Bloc
Yvon Lévesque Bloc Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, QC
I second Mr. Blais. Moreover, Mr. Chairman, since what's contained in the document concerns proposals that applied during previous sittings and since it worked very well that way, I move that we adopt all of these motions.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rodney Weston
I appreciate the comments, Monsieur Lévesque.
Are there any comments otherwise?
Bloc
Raynald Blais Bloc Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC
I simply wanted to know if I've understood this correctly. Is Mr. Lévesque moving that we adopt in its entirety everything in this document or is it simply a proposal, a suggestion? The point of the vote we're having right now deals with the first block, if I can put it that way. Is that right?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Rodney Weston
I'm sorry, that's my fault. It's my first day on the job here. I'm entitled to a couple.
What Mr. Lévesque has proposed is this. Seeing as these motions were adequate, were acceptable in the last session, he thought that things worked quite fine in the last session, so his suggestion was why don't we just vote on the entire document, on accepting all the motions. What I was asking is whether this is something we want to propose, or do we want to go through them one by one, individually?
Mr. Kamp.
Conservative
Randy Kamp Conservative Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission, BC
My preference would be to go through them one by one. I think there are some that we need to revisit. We may not come up with anything different from what we have, but I think it will be helpful for us to take another look at them.
