Mr. Speaker, pursuant to notice, I move that the Standing Orders be amended as follows:
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In section (1) of Standing Order 104, by deleting the word “fourteen” and by substituting therefor the word “sixteen”;
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By deleting section (2) of Standing Order 104 and by substituting the following therefor:
(2) The standing committees, which shall consist of the number of Members stipulated below, and for which the lists of members are to be prepared, except as provided in section (1) of this Standing Order, shall be on: a ) Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (sixteen Members); b ) Agriculture and Agri-Food (sixteen Members); c ) Canadian Heritage (sixteen Members); d ) Citizenship and Immigration (sixteen Members); e ) Environment and Sustainable Development (sixteen Members); f ) Finance (sixteen Members); g ) Fisheries and Oceans (sixteen Members); h ) Foreign Affairs and International Trade (sixteen Members); i ) Health (sixteen Members); j ) Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (sixteen Members); k ) Industry (sixteen Members); l ) Justice and Human Rights (sixteen Members); m ) National Defence and Veterans Affairs (sixteen Members); n ) Natural Resources and Government Operations (sixteen Members); o ) Procedure and House Affairs (sixteen Members); p ) Public Accounts (seventeen Members); and q ) Transport (sixteen Members).
- By deleting subsection ( c ) of section (3) of Standing Order 108 and by substituting therefor the following: c ) Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities shall include, among other matters, the proposing, promoting, monitoring and assessing of initiatives aimed at the integration and equality of disabled persons in all sectors of Canadian society; d ) Justice and Human Rights shall include, among other matters, the review and report on reports of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which shall be deemed permanently referred to the Committee immediately after they are laid upon the Table;
And by renumbering subsection ( d ) of section (3) of Standing Order 108 as subsection ( e );
And that the Members to serve on the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs be Mr. Adams, Mr. Baker, Mr. Bergeron, Mr. Blaikie, Ms. Catterall, Mr. Charbonneau, Mrs. Dalphond-Guiral; Mr. Doyle, Mr. Epp, Mr. Harb, Mr. Kilger (Stormont-Dundas), Mr. Pagtakhan, Ms. Parrish, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Strahl, and Mr. White (Langley-Abbotsford).
(Motion agreed to)