Evidence of meeting #1 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs 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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9:10 a.m.
The Clerk of the Committee Mr. Graeme Truelove
Good morning, honourable members. Welcome to the second session of the 40th Parliament.
My name is Graeme Truelove. I'll be the clerk of the committee. Members who were with the committee last year might be interested to know that the previous clerk of the committee, Bonnie Charron, gave birth to a healthy seven-pound baby boy named Jack on September 28.
Seeing a quorum, we can now proceed to the election of the chair, and I'm ready to receive motions to that effect.
Mr. Albrecht.
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Conservative
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The Clerk
Mr. Albrecht nominates Mr. Stanton.
Are there other motions?
Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
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The Clerk
I declare the motion carried and Mr. Stanton the duly elected chair.
I am now prepared to accept motions for the position of vice-chair.
Mr. Bélanger.
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Liberal
Mauril Bélanger Liberal Ottawa—Vanier, ON
Mr. Chair, I would like to nominate my colleague Todd Russell.
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The Clerk
Mr. Bélanger has nominated Mr. Russell.
Are there any other motions?
(Motion agreed to)
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The Clerk
Mr. Russell is elected vice-chair.
Are there motions for the position of second vice-chair?
Mr. Lemay.
9:10 a.m.
The Clerk
Mr. Lemay has nominated Ms. Crowder.
Are there other motions?
Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
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The Clerk
Ms. Crowder is elected the second vice-chair.
I'll now invite Mr. Stanton to take the chair.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Bruce Stanton
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
First, I thank you for the confidence you've shown this morning in a very tough election, I must say. My congratulations to vice-chairs Mr. Russell and Madam Crowder.
Obviously we're hoping that we're going to have a very robust session in front of us. There's a lot of important work to do on this file for aboriginal affairs and northern development. As you can imagine, we'll likely see, and we've seen already, some legislation in front of us that the committee will need to consider in the months ahead. As we consider the topics before us, I know that we'll all dig in and do the very best we can to inform Parliament, and in turn the government, of course, on the best way forward.
It's a great honour to serve in the position of chair. I'll do my best to make sure that the committee functions well and with the utmost of decorum so that we can move the important topics of the day ahead in a respectful and conciliatory way and do some good work for the House. That is the key.
Regarding today's agenda, typically at the start of our committee session is the consideration of routine motions. I think the routine motions that were in use in the second session of the last Parliament have been circulated to all.
That's not the case?
9:10 a.m.
Bloc
Marc Lemay Bloc Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
No, they haven't been circulated. It wasn't possible to proceed before we elected the Chair.
9:15 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Bruce Stanton
Okay.
I am at the discretion of the committee here as to how you would like to proceed forward. Would you like to begin with the routine motions that were in use in the last session? Okay, let's circulate those, and that will be our starting point.
Normally, committee members, when we consider the routine motions typically we proceed through them on a clause-by-clause basis. These, of course, become the operating rules for our committee. And of course the committees are quite able to set their own course in this regard, but we typically follow the protocols of the past as well.
9:15 a.m.
Conservative
John Duncan Conservative Vancouver Island North, BC
Mr. Chair, may we have a short caucus? We have some thoughts here. We haven't seen this document, or we haven't studied this document enough to talk about it without a little five-minuter. Is that okay?
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Bruce Stanton
I'm at the discretion of the committee. It doesn't matter.
Monsieur Lemay.
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Bloc
Marc Lemay Bloc Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
With all due respect to my colleague, I would like to point out that the same procedural rules and routine motions used in the last session apply here. I've read them and they seem in order. I for one do not have a problem with this; we can break for five minutes.
9:15 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Bruce Stanton
As has been pointed out, this is essentially the same motion as in the last session.
Madame Crowder.
9:15 a.m.
NDP
Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC
And these were actually in the briefing book that was distributed to the committee in advance of the meeting.
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Liberal
Larry Bagnell Liberal Yukon, YT
In that there are some new members on the committee, I don't mind giving them five minutes to....
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Bruce Stanton
If there is agreement, then, we'll just suspend temporarily and members can consider the routine motions and we'll reconvene in a few minutes.
Thank you.
9:20 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Bruce Stanton
I think we'll resume now that members have had a chance to consider the routine motions. As was pointed out by Ms. Crowder, these motions were in use in the 39th Parliament and did come out in the briefing package.
Monsieur Lemay.
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Bloc
Marc Lemay Bloc Abitibi—Témiscamingue, QC
Mr. Chair, first of all, I'd like to congratulate you. I would then like to move the adoption of the routine motions distributed to committee members.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Bruce Stanton
Is there any discussion on the proposal to adopt the routine motions as presented?
Mr. Albrecht.
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Conservative
