Evidence of meeting #1 for Liaison in the 41st 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 of the Committee Mr. Jeffrey LeBlanc
Honourable members, I see that there's a quorum present.
Welcome to the first meeting of the Liaison Committee.
My name is Jeffrey LeBlanc. I'm the Clerk of the Committee.
Your first order of business today is to elect a chair. I am now prepared to receive a motion to that effect.
Mr. Chong.
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Conservative
Michael Chong Conservative Wellington—Halton Hills, ON
I move that Mr. Allison be a candidate for chair.
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The Clerk
It's been moved by Mr. Chong that Mr. Allison be elected chair of the committee. Are there any other motions?
Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
If the committee wishes, we can proceed now to the election of the vice-chair. I am prepared to receive a motion to that effect.
Mr. Preston.
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Conservative
Joe Preston Conservative Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON
I'd like to nominate David Christopherson as vice-chair.
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The Clerk
It's been moved by Mr. Preston that Mr. Christopherson be elected vice-chair.
Are there any other motions? Seeing none, is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
Congratulations to both of you.
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An hon. member
It's a good strong ticket.
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The Clerk
I now invite Mr. Allison to take the chair.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
If I could just send everyone to the proposed agenda, the next order of business will be the subcommittee and committee budgets. Then we need to go through routine motions and dispense.... No, actually, we're going to go through the whole agenda, and we have a couple of budget items we'll look at after that.
We're going to start with the subcommittee and committee budgets. We realize that we need the chair, the vice-chair, and five other members. I'm going to start accepting names from the floor.
Mr. Preston.
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Conservative
Joe Preston Conservative Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON
I would like to nominate Larry Miller. He's not here today, but he has told me that he would like to remain on the subcommittee for budgets, so I will put his name forward.
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Conservative
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Conservative
Joe Preston Conservative Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON
I don't mean to take all of the votes, but Mr. Warkentin did such a great job on this committee the last time too, and he's really learned to pronounce only two-letter words rather than three—
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Voices
Oh, oh!
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Conservative
Joe Preston Conservative Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON
—so I would like to put forward Chris Warkentin's name.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
All right, and our question will be, what are you like when you're drinking...?
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Voices
Oh, oh!
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Dean Allison
We have five members. Are there any others?
I'll call the question for the slate of five that we have. All those in favour?
(Motion agreed to)
We're going now move to routine motions: first, that the clerk of the committee be authorized to make the necessary arrangements to provide working meals for the committee and its subcommittee. Are we all in favour of that?
(Motion agreed to)
Thank you very much.
Next: that the committee retain, as needed and at the discretion of the chair—
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Conservative
Royal Galipeau Conservative Ottawa—Orléans, ON
I raise the question, please. I understand that we're in camera now.
