Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Jan. 27th, 2009

[Marlene Jennings, Liberal, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, QC]

The Liberal members would be Anthony Rota, Siobhan Coady, and Marc Garneau.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Does everybody recognize that change? We've taken Mr. Silva's name off the industry committee. With that change, do we accept this report? We have to vote on the change.

[Michel Guimond, Bloc, Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC]

Two minutes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Two minutes more? Okay.

[Rodger Cuzner, Liberal, Cape Breton—Canso, NS]

Mr. Silva should be added as an associate.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

We added Mr. Silva as an associate member to the industry committee.

Two more minutes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Let's call the meeting back to order.

We've reviewed the report. Does the committee agree to the report as amended, with the amendment of Mr. Silva on the industry committee?

[Michel Guimond, Bloc, Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC]

Fine then.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

All in favour of accepting the amended report?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Shall I present the report to the House?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

I have a couple of other things we will try to agree to today.

First of all, I need a motion to retain the services of an analyst.

[Harold Albrecht, Conservative, Kitchener—Conestoga, ON]

I so move.

(Motion agreed to)

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Great. I would invite you to join us at the table, and now we're well represented.

Generally at the first meeting of this committee we delegate to the whips the authority to make membership changes to committees. Then if that needs to be done, the whips can do it without coming back to this committee. I need a motion to move that, if that's agreeable.

Mr. Lukiwski.

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

I so move.

(Motion agreed to)

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Do we have anything else?

Mr. Reid.

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON]

Isn't a sheet of routine motions and all that sort of thing normally handed out to us?

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

We can do that if you wish.

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON]

I didn't have a chance to chat with two of the other parties--and I apologize that I didn't get over to Yvon--but I just suggested that we take everything that we had agreed on from that sheet, as amended by our committee last time, and adopt them in the form in which they were adopted last time.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

I'll try a motion, if you don't mind: that all the relevant routine motions agreed to at the beginning of the first session of the 40th Parliament be deemed moved and adopted.

Would you be moving that, Mr. Reid?

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON]

I guess I would be, yes.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

All right.

[Yvon Godin, NDP, Acadie—Bathurst, NB]

No mention is made in these routine motions of when the committees will begin meeting. Correct?

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

The other committees, Monsieur Godin? We report that to the House, and we'll do that today at routine proceedings, if at all possible. I believe they can start work after that.