Foreign Affairs committee  Honourable members, I see a quorum. I am Angela Crandall, the clerk assigned to this committee. I will have a new clerk, Jean-Marie David, assisting me for a couple of months. I am now ready to receive motions of nomination for the position of chair. Mr. Lunney.

Foreign Affairs committee  Are there any other motions for nomination? The motion before the committee is that Kevin Sorenson be elected chair of the committee. Is it the will of the committee that Mr. Sorenson be elected chair?

Foreign Affairs committee  Is it the will of the committee to elect the vice-chairs now?

Foreign Affairs committee  Mr. Goldring

Foreign Affairs committee  Are there any other motions for nomination of vice-chair? (Motion agreed to)

Foreign Affairs committee  Are there nominations for second vice-chair of the opposition? Madame Deschamps.

Foreign Affairs committee  Is it the pleasure of the committee to accept the said motion? (Motion agreed to)

Foreign Affairs committee  Through the chair, we had a principal analyst and an analyst, James Lee and Gerry Schmidt, and, as needed, any other analyst would come on to the committee.

Foreign Affairs committee  We also have, I believe, Melissa Radford, who will be assisting the committee on a regular basis. So we will have two on a regular basis and will continue to call on the service of any specialist we need from the Library of Parliament.

Foreign Affairs committee  Exactly.

Foreign Affairs committee  Just a mover.

Foreign Affairs committee  If the chair hasn't designated an acting chair, then the committee would elect an acting chair, normally.

Foreign Affairs committee  That's true.

Foreign Affairs committee  We're getting confused, because we do have one motion on the floor, and his amendment really doesn't have anything to do with the motion that's on the floor--the amendment.

Foreign Affairs committee  The amendment by Mr. Crête is just about removing this part here.