Veterans Affairs Committee on May 9th, 2006

[Bev Shipley, Conservative, Lambton—Kent—Middlesex, ON]

I move that Rob Anders be chair, please.

[The Clerk]

It is moved by Mr. Shipley that Rob Anders be elected as chair of the committee.

Are there any further nominations?

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

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Clerk]

I declare Rob Anders duly elected chair of the committee.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear.

[The Clerk]

I am now prepared to receive nominations for a member of the official opposition as first vice-chair.

[Brent St. Denis, Liberal, Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, ON]

I'd like to nominate Anthony Rota as Liberal vice-chair.

[The Clerk]

It is moved by Mr. St. Denis that Anthony Rota be elected vice-chair of the committee.

Are there any further nominations?

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

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Clerk]

I declare Anthony Rota vice-chair of the committee.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear.

[The Clerk]

I am now ready to take nominations for the position of vice-chair representing a party other than the official opposition.

[Ken Boshcoff, Liberal, Thunder Bay—Rainy River, ON]

I nominate Peter Stoffer.

[The Clerk]

It is has been moved by Mr. Boshcoff that Peter Stoffer be elected vice-chair of the committee.

Are there any further nominations?

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

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Clerk]

I declare Mr. Stoffer duly elected vice-chair of the committee.

[Some hon. members]

Hear, hear.

[The Clerk]

Mr. Anders, would you like to take the chair?

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

Thank you very much. I'm honoured to have the position.

We have some routine motions that we can either deal with at this meeting or put off to another, and I have copies of other motions that I believe other members will bring up.

We might as well deal with the fairly routine ones first, I would think. Then we have some that will be introduced by some of the members.

Does everybody have copies of this? Has it been circulated?

[Robert Thibault, Liberal, West Nova, NS]

I move that all the routine motions be adopted.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

Mr. Thibault moves the routine motions.

Mr. Thibault, if you agree, there are a couple of changes or side amendments or what not.

[Robert Thibault, Liberal, West Nova, NS]

Is it in what has been distributed? Then perhaps we should get most of them prior to the next meeting. Then we can get a review of them.

[The Chair, Conservative, Rob Anders]

That's fine. Does that mean we want to wait, then, on all of these things?

[Betty Hinton, Conservative, Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, BC]

The motion I'm going to make is regarding the main estimates and supplementary estimates. One of the other ones is about routine motions, and I have no problem at all with notifying all members of the committee beforehand.

[Robert Thibault, Liberal, West Nova, NS]

I think it would be a good idea, but if you want to go motion by motion, I think we should deal with the ones that are necessary for the staff to do their work in preparing meetings and so on.