HUMA Committee Meeting

    Honourable members of the committee, I see a quorum.

    I must inform members that the clerk of the committee can receive motions only for the election of the chair. The clerk cannot receive other types of motions, cannot entertain points of order, nor participate in debate.

    We can now proceed to the election of the chair.

    Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the chair must be a member of the government party.

    I am now ready to receive motions to that effect.

    I move that Mr. Ed Komarnicki serve as chair of the HUMA committee.

    It has been moved by Ms. Leitch that Mr. Komarnicki be elected as chair of the committee.

    Are there any further motions?

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

    (Motion agreed to)

    The Clerk: I declare the motion carried and Mr. Komarnicki the duly elected chair of the committee.

     Before inviting Mr. Komarnicki to take the chair, if the committee wishes, we will now proceed to the election of vice-chairs.

    Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the first vice-chair must be a member of the official opposition.

    I am now ready to receive motions for the election of the first vice-chair.

    Ms. Boutin-Sweet, the floor is yours.

    I nominate Chris Charlton for vice-chair of the committee.

    It has been moved by Ms. Boutin-Sweet that Ms. Charlton be elected first vice-chair of the committee. Are there any further motions?

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

    (Motion agreed to)

    The Clerk: I declare the motion carried and Ms. Charlton duly elected first vice-chair of the committee.

    Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the second vice-chair must be a member of an opposition party other than the official opposition. I am now prepared to receive a motion for the second vice-chair.

    It has been moved by Mr. Shory that Mr. Cuzner be elected as second vice-chair of the committee. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?

    (Motion agreed to)

    The Clerk: I declare the motion carried and Mr. Cuzner the duly elected second vice-chair of the committee.

    I now invite Mr. Komarnicki to take the chair.

    Roger being the veteran campaigner that he is, he was able to secure that position through his hard work and dedication.

    I know everyone is eager to get to business from the number of phone calls I received asking for an early meeting, and so we'll start.

    There are a couple of things. We've arranged to hear some witnesses for the first hour on Thursday. We also need to deal with routine motions and future business. If we had unanimous consent, we could actually deal with the routine motions and future business today, and we wouldn't need to deal with that on Thursday in the second hour. If we deal with that today and we conclude early on Thursday and are not able to get additional witnesses, then we'll adjourn early on Thursday and start regularly scheduled meetings thereafter.

    Is there unanimous consent to proceed with routine motions and future business this morning?

    Some hon. members: Agreed.

    Will we proceed in camera to discuss future business?

     Sure, we'll do that.

    With respect to routine motions, is the committee in favour of our simply adopting what we had worked through before?

    The Clerk: We don't need to do the routine ones; they are carried.

    The Chair: I stand corrected. We don't need to deal with the routine motions. We'll simply go in camera and deal with future business. Routine motions will be as they were, which makes good sense.

    Thank you, Evelyn.

    [Proceedings continue in camera]