Evidence of meeting #2 for Public Safety and National Security in the 39th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was clerk.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
I'd like to call this meeting to order. This is meeting number two of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
We have two items on our agenda this afternoon. The first one I'd like to deal with is routine motions. We had a discussion of this at the last meeting, and the clerk has put together a very good summary of the conclusions we reached. Do you wish him to distribute them now?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Okay. He has already made the adjustments. I think that will help our discussion a lot. So I'll ask him to distribute the revised routine motions. I'll go through them and try to point out where the changes are.
Mr. Dosanjh.
Liberal
Ujjal Dosanjh Liberal Vancouver South, BC
I have a motion that I want to give notice of. I don't have it typed. When do you want me to do that?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
You can submit it to the clerk at any point when it's ready to go.
Liberal
Ujjal Dosanjh Liberal Vancouver South, BC
Does that apply even if it's handwritten? I don't have it translated. Can't one orally notify the committee here?
Liberal
Ujjal Dosanjh Liberal Vancouver South, BC
I have to submit it ultimately anyway. I understand that. What are the rules?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
If you wish, and with the consent of the committee, you can do it right after we adopt our routine motions. We have to do those first. You can submit it before we go to our second agenda item. Then you won't have to wait until the end of the meeting.
Liberal
Ujjal Dosanjh Liberal Vancouver South, BC
I'm happy to do it at the end of the meeting. It doesn't matter to me.
Conservative
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Everybody has a copy now, so let's first of all ensure that we have the proper analysts--the people who help us at this committee. The first routine motion is that we retain the services of the staff who previously served this committee. Nobody has a problem with that, I hope.
Mr. MacKenzie.
November 20th, 2007 / 3:30 p.m.
Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
Do we accept these as we go along, or do we accept them or debate them as a whole?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
It would probably go more quickly to do them one at a time, but I'm at your mercy. It's whatever you wish. Should we do them one at a time?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Does anybody have a problem with that? If you have a problem, please raise your hand; otherwise I will assume that we have consent to go on to the next one. We'll do one at a time, and if we're done with it, we've agreed to it.
Monsieur Ménard.
Bloc
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Okay. I'll read all the motions. I guess that's not too onerous a task.
The first one is about the services of the analysts from the Library of Parliament:
That the Committee retain the services of one or more analysts from the Library of Parliament, as needed, to assist the Committee in its work. These services may be requested at the discretion of the Chair.
(Motion agreed to)
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
I'll invite our analysts to come up here. We have really enjoyed a very good working relationship with Phil and Lyne.
We welcome you back to this committee. Do you want to make acceptance speeches?
Philip Rosen Committee Researcher
I could just hand out the statement, Chair, if you wish.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
We have really appreciated the work you have done for this committee, and I think there was no need to have a discussion on that.
Okay. Reduced quorum. I've taken away one paragraph, you will notice, so this reduced quorum reads:
That the Chair be authorized to hold meetings to receive evidence and to have that evidence printed when a quorum is not present, provided that at least three (3) members are present, including one member of the opposition and one member of the government.
That's the revised motion, which I think we agreed to last time.
Ms. Brown.
