Evidence of meeting #1 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was motions.
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The Clerk of the Committee Mr. Andrew Chaplin
Honourable members of the committee, I see a quorum.
We can now proceed to the election of a chair. I'm ready to receive motions to that end.
Mr. Telegdi.
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Liberal
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An hon. member
I second that.
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The Clerk
It has been moved by Mr. Telegdi that Mr. Doyle be elected as chair of the committee.
Are there any further motions?
(Motion agreed to)
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The Clerk
I declare the motion carried and Mr. Doyle duly elected chair of the committee.
Before inviting Mr. Doyle to take the chair, if the committee wishes we will now proceed to the election of vice-chairs.
Mr. Batters.
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Conservative
Dave Batters Conservative Palliser, SK
I'd like to nominate Mr. Telegdi as a vice-chair of this committee, sir.
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The Clerk
It has been moved by Mr. Batters that Mr. Telegdi be elected as first vice-chair of the committee.
Are there any further motions?
Ms. Chow.
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The Clerk
Could we deal with the first vice-chair?
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Liberal
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The Clerk
Seconders are not required in committee.
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Liberal
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The Clerk
No.
The committee has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
I declare the motion carried and Mr. Telegdi duly elected first vice-chair of the committee.
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Some hon. members
Hear, hear!
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The Clerk
I am now prepared to receive motions for the election of the second vice-chair of the committee.
Monsieur Carrier.
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The Clerk
It is moved by Mr. Carrier that Ms. Faille be elected second vice-chair of the committee.
Are there any further motions?
The committee has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(The motion is carried.)
I declare the motion carried and that Ms. Faille is duly elected second vice-chair of the committee.
I'd now invite Mr. Doyle to take the chair.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle
Well, thank you for the opportunity to serve as chair again. It's a pleasure. I think it's a pleasure—I'm not absolutely sure, but that will be determined by you.
I want to congratulate Andrew and Meili for their re-election.
I want to welcome the new clerk, Andrew Chaplin, and to thank him for acting as our clerk.
I believe we have some new members on the committee. I want to welcome to the committee the Honourable Maurizio Bevilacqua, who is the official opposition critic on the committee.
Is Colleen here? Is Colleen Beaumier on the committee? I think she is.
Robert Carrier is on the committee as well.
Olivia Chow is a new member, as is Wajid Khan.
Welcome, all of you, to our first meeting.
All we have on the agenda today is the election of a chair and the vice-chairs. I don't know if we have anyone who wishes to say anything before the meeting is officially adjourned until tomorrow.
I saw Mr. Karygiannis' hand up first. Mr. Karygiannis, then Madam Chow.
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Liberal
Jim Karygiannis Liberal Scarborough—Agincourt, ON
Mr. Chair, I would seek unanimous consent that we follow the rules as we had them in the committee in the past, and if there are any new rules that we have to discuss that we should either bring them up today or bring them up at the next meeting.
However, since we've lost so much time, as we had an agenda—it was an aggressive agenda, and we lost all that time—I would say that we bring back everything we had before we rose in the summer and prorogued and that all our motions and all the work we have done should be brought forward again, and for us to have the steering committee come up with the agenda we had and to re-engage this committee so we can go on with our work.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle
You've heard the motion. Do we have discussion on that motion, or is it something we could agree on? Is there any discussion on the motion?
First of all, before we have discussion on the motion, just to bring you up to date and to help Mr. Karygiannis here, we had a number of studies on the go.
Before we broke we had a motion adopted on May 1 to do a study on undocumented temporary foreign workers, including the point system. I believe the committee was going to travel on that. On June 19 the committee decided to travel to accommodate all the witnesses we were going to have coming forward on undocumented and temporary foreign workers. That was one that was on the floor.
We also had a motion adopted on May 29 for Iraqi refugees. That study didn't start as well. The committee decided to hear from organizational representatives about policy options rather than individual experiences, and we had over 160 individuals and organizations requesting to appear.
We also had a motion on June 7 for immigration consultants. That didn't start. The motion specified which witnesses. Several witnesses were requested to appear.
The most important one—I think you'd agree with me, Mr. Telegdi, in particular—was loss of Canadian citizenship. We had a draft report. Consideration of the draft report did not start.
So I guess the motion would be related to that, to bringing these back.
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Liberal
Jim Karygiannis Liberal Scarborough—Agincourt, ON
Chair, I think we also had another motion about hearing Joe Taylor's.... We had given the department 30 days. Those 30 days are up, and we should have that material in our hands by now.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Norman Doyle
The Taylor application and the related documents were requested from CIC and given to members, so the members would have that, I do believe.
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Liberal
