Status of Women Committee on May 9th, 2006

[The Clerk of the Committee]

We will now proceed with the election of a chair. I am ready to receive motions to that effect.

[Anita Neville, Liberal, Winnipeg South Centre, MB]

I nominate the Honourable Judy Sgro.

[The Clerk]

It has been moved by the Honourable Anita Neville to nominate the Honourable Judy Sgro as chair.

[Joy Smith, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

Do you need a seconder for that motion?

[The Clerk]

Are there any further motions?

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

(Motion agreed to)

[The Clerk]

The Honourable Judy Sgro is duly elected as chair of the committee.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear!

[The Clerk]

Before inviting the chair to take the chair, we will now proceed to the election of the vice-chairs.

[Nina Grewal, Conservative, Fleetwood—Port Kells, BC]

I would like to nominate Joy Smith as a vice-chair.

[The Clerk]

Nina Grewal has nominated Joy Smith for the position of vice-chair.

Are there any further motions?

[An hon. member]

I move that nominations be closed.

[The Clerk]

There being no further motions, Joy Smith has been duly elected as vice-chair.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear!

[The Clerk]

Are there any motions for second vice-chair?

[Diane Bourgeois, Bloc, Terrebonne—Blainville, QC]

I nominate Ms. Irene Mathyssen.

[The Clerk]

Diane Bourgeois moves that Ms. Irene Mathyssen be the second vice-chair.

Are there any other nominations?

[A voice]

I move that nominations be closed.

[The Clerk]

I declare Irene Mathyssen duly elected as second vice-chair of the committee.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear!

[The Clerk]

Now I'll invite the chair to take the chair.

[The Chair, Liberal, Judy Sgro]

Thank you all very much.

Joy, you wanted to say something. I'm sorry, I mean, Mrs. Smith. I'm a pretty informal person, so you'll have to catch me when....

[Joy Smith, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

That's just fine, Judy--oops, Ms. Sgro, I mean.

I would move that we have the elections today and then move to adjourn. I understand we're going to be having a subcommittee looking at the agenda and things like that. So I would move that after the elections today, which have been completed, we adjourn until Thursday and agree to meet as a subcommittee before Thursday to talk about the agenda.

[The Chair, Liberal, Judy Sgro]

Should we deal with some of the standard and routine motions first, the housekeeping items, which is the normal procedure, and then adjourn and do the subcommittee work, unless you have issues with some of the routine motions we have?

[Joy Smith, Conservative, Kildonan—St. Paul, MB]

I would prefer to adjourn just after the elections today. There are a few things I need to go over in terms of the routine motions. So if that's all right, we can do the routine motions the next day very quickly.

[The Chair, Liberal, Judy Sgro]

Ms. Minna.