Mr. Speaker, there have been consultations between parties and there is general agreement that I present the following motion. I move:
That the Standing Orders be amended as follows:
1. By replacing Standing Order 104(2) with the following:
104(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 (twelve Members);
(b) Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (eleven Members);
(c) Agriculture and Agri-Food (twelve Members);
(d) Canadian Heritage (twelve Members);
(e) Citizenship and Immigration (twelve Members);
(f) Environment and Sustainable Development (twelve Members);
(g) Finance (twelve Members);
(h) Fisheries and Oceans (twelve Members);
(i) Foreign Affairs and International Development (twelve Members);
(j) Government Operations and Estimates (eleven Members);
(k) Health (twelve Members);
(l) Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (twelve Members);
(m) Industry, Science and Technology (twelve Members);
(n) International Trade (twelve Members);
(o) Justice and Human Rights (twelve Members);
(p) National Defence (twelve Members);
(q) Natural Resources (twelve Members);
(r) Official Languages (twelve Members);
(s) Procedure and House Affairs (twelve Members);
(t) Public Accounts (eleven Members);
(u) Public Safety and National Security (twelve Members);
(v) Status of Women (eleven Members);
(w) Transport, Infrastructure and Communities (twelve Members); and,
(x) Veterans Affairs (twelve Members).
2. By replacing Standing Order 108(3)(b) with the following:
108(3)(b) Citizenship and Immigration shall include, among other matters, the monitoring of the implementation of the principles of the federal multiculturalism policy throughout the Government of Canada in order:
(i) to encourage the departments and agencies of the federal government to reflect the multicultural diversity of the nation; and
(ii) to examine existing and new programs and policies of federal departments and agencies to encourage sensitivity to multicultural concerns and to preserve and enhance the multicultural reality of Canada.
3. By replacing Standing Order 108(3)(d) with the following:
108(3)(d) Human Resources, Skills and Social 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;
That the Clerk of the House be authorized, where appropriate, to redirect, after consultation, any references to any committees that have already been made at the time of the adoption of this order.