Evidence of meeting #1 for Public Safety and National Security in the 43rd 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 Mr. Jean-Marie David
Honourable members of the committee, I see a quorum.
I must inform members that the clerk of the committee can only receive motions for the election of a chair. The clerk cannot receive other types of motions, cannot entertain points of order nor participate in debate.
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 for the chair.
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Liberal
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The Clerk
It has been moved by Ms. Damoff that Mr. McKay be elected 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. John McKay duly elected chair of the committee.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal John McKay
Thank you for that inspiring speech, Pam. I appreciate it. I think it was the robocalls that did it.
Before we get into routine motions, I just want to say that the work of the committee in the last Parliament was really quite excellent. There was a lot of consensus and important work was done. I'm hoping that we can continue that.
In a minority government there's always a temptation to chase every political rabbit down every political rabbit hole and at the end of the day, you wonder what you actually did here. This is an important committee. It's important work that we can do, and I'm rather hoping that we can work collaboratively to achieve all of those ends.
If I may introduce the best clerk on the Hill, Jean-Marie is a tremendously able individual and we were very blessed last time with great analysts as well.
Apparently, we have to elect vice-chairs.
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The Clerk
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the first vice-chair must be a member of the official opposition.
I'm now ready to receive motions for the election of the first vice-chair.
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Conservative
8:50 a.m.
The Clerk
It's been moved by Mr. Morrison that Mr. Paul-Hus 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 Mr. Paul-Hus duly elected first vice-chair of the committee.
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Conservative
8:50 a.m.
The Clerk
Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the second vice-chair must be a member of an opposition party other than the official opposition.
I'm now ready to receive motions for the election of the second vice-chair.
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NDP
Alistair MacGregor NDP Cowichan—Malahat—Langford, BC
I'd like to nominate Jack Harris. I am replacing him just for today.
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The Clerk
It has been moved by Mr. MacGregor that Jack Harris be elected as second vice-chair.
Are there any further motions?
Mr. Paul-Hus.
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Conservative
Pierre Paul-Hus Conservative Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC
I would like to nominate, as second vice-chair of the committee, Kristina Michaud, from the Bloc Québécois, the second opposition party.
8:50 a.m.
The Clerk
Since more than one candidate has been nominated, pursuant to Standing Order 106(3), I'm required to preside over the election of the vice-chair by secret ballot.
We will be passing ballots around.
8:55 a.m.
The Clerk
I declare Ms. Michaud to have received a majority of the votes. She's therefore elected second vice-chair of the committee.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal John McKay
We are ready to proceed to routine motions.
Everyone has a package of routine motions. Do we want to go through them one by one?
The first is that the committee retain the services of more analysts from the Library of Parliament as needed to assist the committee in its work.
Is that acceptable?
I saw Madam Damoff nod her head. She is the mover.
The second motion—
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Conservative
Pierre Paul-Hus Conservative Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC
Hold on a second. I want to check something. I don't have a good one here, because they changed the time.
The time limit for the parties to ask questions has been changed. It was seven minutes, as stated here, but it's now six minutes.
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Conservative
Pierre Paul-Hus Conservative Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, QC
They changed the time we have for questioning witnesses. Instead of seven minutes, actually we have six minutes for the first round.
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Conservative
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal John McKay
The second motion is on the subcommittee on agenda and procedure.
We're having Madam Damoff move these motions.
Do you want to move it?
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Liberal
Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON
Sure. We're doing each clause on the subcommittee on agenda and procedure.
Shall I read it?
