Evidence of meeting #1 for Subcommittee on International Human Rights in the 39th Parliament, 1st 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
Honorable members, I see a quorum. We will begin.
I'm ready to receive motions for the nomination of the chair of the subcommittee. The chair has to be a member of the government.
Ms. Minna.
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Liberal
Maria Minna Liberal Beaches—East York, ON
Okay, that's been decided. In that case, I don't know who they decided on.
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Conservative
Ted Menzies Conservative Macleod, AB
I would like to, if I may, nominate Kevin Sorenson as the chair.
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The Clerk
There is a motion to nominate Kevin Sorenson as the chair.
Are there any other nominations?
The committee has heard the motion. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
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The Clerk
Would the committee like to proceed to the election of the vice-chair at this time?
I'm ready to receive nominations for the vice-chair.
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Liberal
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The Clerk
That's up to the committee. The subcommittee has seven members, and we can have two, as we do in the main committee.
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The Clerk
Okay. We have two nominations.
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An hon. member
Can we not just have two vice-chairs and that would be it?
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The Clerk
Yes, we can.
Let's deal with the motion for Mr. Silva's nomination. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
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The Clerk
Mr. Silva will be the vice-chair for the opposition.
The nomination is for Madame St-Hilaire to be the other vice-chair for the opposition.
(Motion agreed to)
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The Clerk
So we'll ask Mr. Sorenson to take the chair.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
Thank you, colleagues.
We do have some routine motions. Do you want to deal with them tonight, or do you want to wait until our next meeting?
Mr. Menzies.
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Conservative
Ted Menzies Conservative Macleod, AB
Mr. Chair, do we need to deal with some of the structure of the committee as far as putting motions forward with 48 hours' notice?
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
First of all, I'll just go through them.
There is a motion that the subcommittee retain the services of one or more analysts from the Parliamentary Information and Research Service of the Library of Parliament, as needed, to assist the committee in its work, at the discretion of the chair.
All in favour?
(Motion agreed to)
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Liberal
Maria Minna Liberal Beaches—East York, ON
The chair doesn't have to read them all. I think we know them.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
We haven't had a chance to preview this before, so it's just so we all have a chance....
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The Clerk
These are the same motions they had in the last Parliament.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
All right.
Are we all in favour of the second motion, that the chair be authorized to hold meetings to receive...?
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
The next motion is to hear witnesses for ten minutes and then the allocation of party questions after, that they be allocated for seven minutes for the first round.
Is there any discussion on that? I know in other committees you do this a little differently. In some it's five minutes and more people get a chance, but seven minutes should be....
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
This is that 48 hours' notice be given....
(Motion agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])