Evidence of meeting #1 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 41st 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 Mrs. Marie-France Renaud
Honourable members of the committee, I see a quorum.
I must inform members that the clerk of the committee can only receive motions for the election of the chair. The clerk cannot receive other types of motions and cannot entertain points of order or participate in debate.
We can now proceed to the election of the chair.
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the chair must be a member of the government party.
I am ready to receive motions for the chair.
Mr. Lukiwski.
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Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
Thank you.
To all committee members, I've given extensive thought to this and considered the performance of our last chair, and after careful deliberation, along with the fact that one of our members has promised all committee members free access and free burgers at Wendy's, I thought it would be appropriate to nominate for the position of chair Mr. Joe Preston.
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The Clerk
It has been moved by Mr. Lukiwski that Mr. Joe Preston be elected chair of the committee.
Are there any further motions?
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An hon. member
No.
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The Clerk
Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
I declare the motion carried and Mr. Preston duly elected chair of the committee.
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Some hon. members
Hear, hear!
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The Clerk
Before inviting Mr. Preston to take the chair, if the committee wishes, we will now proceed to the election of the vice-chairs.
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the first vice-chair must be a member of the official opposition.
I am now ready to receive motions for the election of the first vice-chair.
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NDP
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The Clerk
It has been moved by Ms. Turmel that Alexandrine Latendresse be elected first vice-chair of the committee.
Are there any further motions?
Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
I declare the motion carried and Ms. Latendresse duly elected first vice-chair of the committee in absentia.
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the second vice-chair must be a member of an opposition party other than the official opposition.
I am now ready to receive motions for the election of the second vice-chair.
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Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
Again after careful consideration, I would nominate Mr. Kevin Lamoureux.
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The Clerk
It has been moved by Mr. Lukiwski that Mr. Lamoureux be elected as second vice-chair of the committee.
It is the pleasure of the committee to adopt this motion?
(Motion agreed to)
I declare the motion carried and Mr. Lamoureux duly elected second vice-chair of the committee.
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Some hon. members
Hear, hear!
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The clerk
I now invite Mr. Preston to take the chair.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Thank you all. I welcome our new members to procedure and House affairs and thank the members visiting today for coming. Some of you are old friends of this committee. It is good to have you here. It will not run as efficiently as you just saw it run. This chair will sometimes run it a little differently.
We have a few things we must also do today. We have to adopt our routine motions, and we will have a quick discussion on committee rooms. Mr. Scott is not here today. He had talked to us about moving out of this room, or at least generally being elsewhere.
Then I have some news to share about committee business, if that's okay with the committee.
I don't think we'll be here all that long today, but just to be as thorough as we can, we want to move forward on the adoption of routine motions first. Can we work on what we already had? There may be some other motions from the floor too.
First of all, do we have to accept each of these individually?
On analyst services, that we take up the services of our analysts—
Yes.
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Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
On a point of order, are these in fact the same motions that we had last time, or are there any changes to what we adopted and were using when Parliament wrapped up? Are they the same?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
I would love it to be that, Mr. Reid, but I can't predict what the committee wants.
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Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
No, the question is, are they, as written here, the same?
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Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
In that case, can I make a motion that we just adopt them all as a unit rather than reading through all of them?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
I will accept that motion if the committee agrees to it.
I have Mr. Reid's motion on the floor. Is there any discussion on it? I see none.
All those in favour of accepting these as they were, please indicate.
(Motion agreed to)
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Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
I actually did have another motion.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Let's try it then. That one went pretty smoothly. Let's try again.
