Evidence of meeting #31 for Foreign Affairs and International Development in the 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendments.
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The Clerk of the Committee Mrs. Carmen DePape
Honourable members of the committee, I see a quorum.
We can now proceed to the election of the chair. I am ready to receive motions to that effect.
Ms. Brown.
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Conservative
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The Clerk
It has been moved by Ms. Brown that Mr. Sorenson be elected chair of the committee.
Are there further nominations? Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
I declare the motion carried and Mr. Sorenson duly elected chair of the committee.
If the committee wishes, we will now proceed with the election of the vice-chairs. I am now prepared to receive motions for the first vice-chair.
Mr. Goldring.
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Conservative
Peter Goldring Conservative Edmonton East, AB
I wish to make a motion that Monsieur Patry be elected vice-chair.
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The Clerk
It has been moved by Mr. Goldring that Mr. Patry be elected first vice-chair of the committee.
Y a-t-il d'autres nominations?
Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
I declare the motion adopted and Dr. Patry elected first vice-chair of the committee.
I am now ready to receive motions for the second vice-chair.
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The Clerk
It is moved by Ms. Deschamps that Ms. Lalonde be elected second vice-chair of the committee.
Are there any other motions?
Is it the pleasure of the committee to agree to the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
I declare the motion carried and Ms. Lalonde duly elected second vice-chair of the committee.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
All right. We need unanimous consent to go back into committee business. My intention is to present the steering committee report and adopt it. Then, if that is good, we'll carry on and invite our guests to come forward.
Do we have unanimous consent?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
All right, that is carried.
Good morning. This is meeting number 31 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. I want to welcome everyone back. It's like we haven't been away. Thank you for nominating and electing me back into the chair.
First of all, before we go into committee business, I want to introduce and welcome Ms. DePape as our clerk. Carmen has served as clerk on many different committees over the years. She has a lot of experience in the position, so let's just welcome Carmen as our new clerk.
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Some hon. members
Hear, hear!
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
Most recently, I think she worked with the health committee.
We also have a new researcher and analyst, Allison Goody. She has been on the Hill before. She's been provided to us by the Library of Parliament. She's joining Melissa Radford and James Lee. We always appreciate the good work that our Library of Parliament and our researchers do. Thank you for being here, and we welcome Allison.
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Some hon. members
Hear, hear!
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
All right, we'll go to orders of the day.We'll proceed to committee business.
Our clerk will distribute the steering committee report. Your steering committee met last week, or the week before the break. We came forward with some recommendations for the committee. We'll pass those out and let you take a look at them. She will also give you a copy of the proposed calendar.
I want to give you a few minutes to take a look at the steering committee report. I'm not going to read the entire report, but we'll give you a few moments to look it over. There are two pieces of paper: one is the steering committee report, the other is the calendar. This may seem a little confusing. We were not able to pass out the report until we had unanimous consent to proceed with the meeting today, so that's why you're getting it now and not earlier.
You'll take note in the report that item number one is already completed. We had an informal meeting with the exiled Burmese Prime Minister and a delegation from Burma, and I thank all of you who came out for that.
You'll also note that item number two is in reference to today's meeting. We have guests who are waiting to appear as soon as the report is adopted.
Mr. Patry.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
Mr. Patry moves the adoption of the steering committee report.
Ms. Brown seconds the motion.
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
Thank you.
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NDP
Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON
Mr. Chair, I wanted to intervene—I was waiting until we had passed the steering committee report—on the agenda for today. In terms of sequencing, I have a request that we change the order to have departmental officials first, if possible. The reason for this is that there was to be another guest whose plane is late and who would want to join with the cohort of individuals of Mr. Applebaum and Mr. Parsons. It's actually the Minister of Fisheries from Newfoundland who's wanting to join them. In light of the fact that his plane has been delayed, I'm asking whether we could change the order of witnesses.
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NDP
Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON
That's why I'm putting it forward first, before we invite people to come forward.
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Conservative
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NDP
Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON
I would also ask that the Minister of Fisheries from Newfoundland be added to the second cohort, because he wasn't on this list.
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NDP
Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON
Yes, but when we confirmed last night, there were issues around fog in Newfoundland.
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Conservative
