Evidence of meeting #1 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 40th Parliament, 3rd 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. Angela Crandall
Honourable members, I see that we have a quorum.
I will now proceed to the election of the chair.
I am now ready to receive motions for the position of chair.
Mr. Lukiwski.
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Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
Thank you, Madam Clerk.
I would nominate Mr. Joe Preston for chair.
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The Clerk
Are there any other nominations?
The motion is that Mr. Preston be elected chair of the committee. All in favour?
(Motion agreed to)
The motion is carried. Mr. Preston is elected chair of the committee.
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Some hon. members
Hear, hear!
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The Clerk
Is it the will of the committee to proceed to the election of vice-chairs?
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Some hon. members
Agreed.
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The Clerk
I will now accept nominations.
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Liberal
Rodger Cuzner Liberal Cape Breton—Canso, NS
I'd like to nominate my friend and colleague, Marcel Proulx.
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The Clerk
Are there any other motions?
The motion before the committee is that Mr. Proulx be the first vice-chair, for the official opposition. All in favour?
(Motion agreed to)
The motion is carried.
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Some hon. members
Hear, hear!
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The Clerk
I am now ready to receive motions for the position of second vice-chair.
Mrs. DeBellefeuille.
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The Clerk
Are there any other motions?
It has been moved that Mr. Guimond be elected second vice-chair.
(Motion agreed to)
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The Clerk
Mr. Chair.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
I'd like to thank all my friends. Now that I have you all here, we will do just a little bit more work.
Ladies and gentlemen, earlier in the House today, the House of Commons made the following order:
That, for all standing committees, routine motions in effect at the time of prorogation of the previous session be deemed to have been adopted in the current session, provided that committees be empowered to alter or rescind such motions as they deem appropriate.
Accordingly, the routine motions that were in effect at the time of prorogation are reinstated for this committee. The clerk will reflect the order in the minutes of this meeting. The committee can, if it chooses, amend any of these motions. Finally, for information purposes, the clerk has distributed a copy of those motions to you.
Are there questions?
Mr. Reid.
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Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
I'm just assuming that this means, for example, that Harold Albrecht will be appointed chair of the Subcommittee on Private Members' Business--that personnel considerations are also part of this as well.
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Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
I have a clarification, Mr. Chair. That is unless, of course, the committee as a whole determines that it wishes to change the composition of subcommittees or steering committees or whatever. But if the committee agrees, then we will go back to the configuration we had previous to prorogation.
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Liberal
Marlene Jennings Liberal Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, QC
I have a slight correction. The standing orders that we adopted in the House today say that it's for the motions that were before the committee, the routine motions. That means this is what it is now. If the committee wishes to change it, we can, but--
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An hon. member
I thought I said that.
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Liberal
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An hon. member
That's exactly what he was saying.
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Liberal
Marlene Jennings Liberal Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, QC
No. Go back and check the transcript. There was a slight error.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Okay. So we can at any time go forward, but right now we've accepted the routine motions as they were when we left.
If I could ask the indulgence of the group, we were maybe going to do just a little bit of committee business today on the membership of other committees. We can't do that until we present that report, and it couldn't be presented until there was a chair. There is now, but we will have to move in camera in order to discuss that committee business, the membership of other committees.
Monsieur Guimond.
