Evidence of meeting #1 for Citizenship and Immigration in the 40th 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
Am I to understand that now only Mr. Bevilacqua's name should be considered by the committee?
The Clerk
Moved by Mr. St-Cyr that Mr. Bevilacqua be elected first vice-chair of the committee.
The committee has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
The Clerk
I am prepared to receive motions for the second vice-chair, who must be from a party other than that of the official opposition. I'm now prepared to receive motions to this effect.
The Clerk
Moved by Mr. Dorion that Mr. St-Cyr be elected second vice-chair of the committee.
Are there any other motions?
Mr. Karygiannis.
Liberal
The Clerk
Am I to understand that only Mr. St-Cyr's name stands for the post of second vice-chair?
Moved by Mr. Dorion that Mr. St-Cyr be elected second vice-chair of the committee.
The committee has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
Thank you, members of the committee.
I guess we're now into the routine motions.
Ms. Chow.
NDP
Olivia Chow NDP Trinity—Spadina, ON
I move the adoption of the routine motions that have been handed out, with one minor amendment.
Under “Distribution of Documents”, the fourth paragraph on page 1, the clerk of the committee is authorized to distribute documents to “members of the committee”. I want to make a small addition, so that it would say “members of the committee and deputy members”. I would like my wonderful deputy, Mr. Don Davies, to also receive the agenda.
I make that very minor amendment.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
I guess it's open for debate, although, as I understand it, any member of the House of Commons can come to a committee, participate in debates, and ask questions. I guess the only thing they can't do is vote.
Is there debate on this, Mr. Dykstra?
Conservative
Rick Dykstra Conservative St. Catharines, ON
Actually, I'm not going to debate that particular issue, but I would like to ask the mover if we could deal with each of these individually.
Conservative
Rick Dykstra Conservative St. Catharines, ON
I do have some further amendments, as I'm sure a few others do.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
Mr. Bevilacqua....
You know, it's going to take me a while to get to know names here. Sometimes it takes me a year, but I'll do my best.
Liberal
Maurizio Bevilacqua Liberal Vaughan, ON
No, it wasn't that bad.
I think you addressed the point, but I'm just wondering if she's referring to all associate members. There's a fairly lengthy list.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
It's whatever the committee wishes, but it would seem to me that conceivably all parties could bring in all kinds of people.
Ms. Chow, you might get into a problem if you have to distribute to.... Mr. Davies may or may not be at future meetings—maybe he will, maybe he won't—and the Liberals, the Bloc, and the Conservatives could have members as well. I guess it's a logistics problem for the clerk. That's the chair's opinion, but it's up to the committee.
We'll start at motion one, as Mr. Dykstra suggested. I gather that members have agreed to that.
So you're withdrawing your motion?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative David Tilson
So we'll do the motions separately, one at a time.
The first motion is on the services of analysts.
