Evidence of meeting #1 for Indigenous and Northern Affairs in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was crowder.

A recording is available from Parliament.

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MPs speaking

Also speaking

Clerk of the Committee  Mr. Jean-Marie David

11 a.m.

The Clerk of the Committee Mr. Jean-Marie David

Honourable members of the committee,

I see a quorum.

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 to that effect.

Ms. Crowder.

11 a.m.

NDP

Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC

I move that Chris Warkentin be chair.

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The Clerk

It's been moved by Ms. Crowder that Mr. Warkentin be elected as 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 Mr. Warkentin duly elected the chair of the committee.

Before inviting Mr. Warkentin 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 prepared to receive motions for the first vice-chair.

Mr. Warkentin.

11 a.m.

Conservative

Chris Warkentin Conservative Peace River, AB

I'd like to move that Jean Crowder be the vice-chair.

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The Clerk

It has been moved by Mr. Warkentin that Ms. Crowder be elected as 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. Crowder duly elected first vice-chair of the committee.

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 prepared to receive a motion for the second vice-chair.

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Conservative

Mark Strahl Conservative Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon, BC

I propose Elizabeth May.

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Some hon. members

Oh, oh!

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NDP

Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC

She's actually not a party....

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The Clerk

Mr. Boughen.

11 a.m.

Conservative

Ray Boughen Conservative Palliser, SK

I propose Carolyn Bennett.

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The Clerk

It has been moved by Mr. Boughen that Ms. Bennett be elected second vice-chair.

Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?

(Motion agreed to)

I declare the motion carried and Ms. Bennett duly elected second vice-chair of the committee.

I now invite Mr. Warkentin to take the chair.

11 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin

Thank you so much for allowing me to continue to serve in this capacity. It's been a good committee and something that I've been looking forward to getting back to.

It's great to see each one of you, and we look forward to having a good and productive committee for the next number of months.

It's good to have a new member of our committee; Mark Strahl, thanks for joining us. We look forward to working with you.

I thought it would be helpful if we could get through the routine motions of the committee. You will have had circulated the motions as they stood prior to when we left. I'm not sure if anybody wants to move the entirety of the existing motions as they were.

Ms. Crowder.

11 a.m.

NDP

Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC

We don't have the whole list. For example, we don't have the rotation of the speakers on these routine motions.

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin

I don't have that either.

Give me a second. We don't want to revisit if we don't have to. It would be helpful.

11:05 a.m.

NDP

Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC

We would be taking it on faith that it was exactly the same as the other, but we don't actually have it in front of us.

11:05 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin

Well, here's a question. Could we have a motion moved that we adopt every motion from the last Parliament?

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NDP

Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC

Every routine motion?

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Conservative

The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin

Every routine motion.

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NDP

Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC

So as presented....

11:05 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin

As we had in the last Parliament, prior to....

11:05 a.m.

Conservative

Mark Strahl Conservative Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon, BC

Do you have an addition coming up?

11:05 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin

I know there are a couple of different routine motions that have been proposed in addition to what was there previously, but I was thinking if we could just simply adopt all of the routine motions as they were to begin with.... We won't reference any particular document; we'll simply accept what was, to continue.

11:05 a.m.

NDP

Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC

The routine motions that we passed at the start-up of the last committee.

11:05 a.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Chris Warkentin

Right.

11:05 a.m.

NDP

Jean Crowder NDP Nanaimo—Cowichan, BC

Okay. I'm fine with that.