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EVIDENCE
[Recorded by Electronic Apparatus]
Tuesday, October 19, 1999
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The Clerk of the Committee: Pursuant to the House order made on Tuesday, October 19, 1999, which reads that notwithstanding the provision of Standing Order 106(1), the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans be permitted to meet for the purposes of electing a chair on Wednesday, October 20, 1999, your first item of business is to elect a chair. I'm ready to receive a motion to that effect.
Mr. Strahl.
Mr. Chuck Strahl (Fraser Valley, Ref.): I move that John Cummins be the chair of the committee. You guys know this is the right thing to do.
The Clerk: Members, you've heard the terms of the motion.
An hon. member: I move that Wayne Easter be the chair.
The Clerk: We'll do one motion at a time. We'll vote for Mr. Cummins, that Mr. Cummins be the chair.
(Motion negatived)
Mr. Lou Sekora (Port Moody—Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam, Lib.): I move Wayne Easter.
An hon. member: A good second choice.
(Motion agreed to)
The Clerk: I invite Mr. Easter to take the chair.
The Chairman (Mr. Wayne Easter (Malpeque, Lib.)): Thank you.
I'll now call for motions for election of vice-chair.
Mr. Lou Sekora: I move Carmen Provenzano.
Mr. John Cummins (Delta—South Richmond, Ref.): Do you want to do both at once?
The Chairman: Just one at a time.
(Motion agreed to)
Mr. John Cummins: I move that John Duncan be vice-chair.
(Motion agreed to)
The Chairman: On point three on the sheet, you have a printout, which is basically the routine motions that we adopted last session for the committee. On the one dealing with the appointment of a subcommittee on agenda and procedure, as outlined in point nine, the procedure we had last time was that the steering committee basically be the chair, two vice-chairs, parliamentary secretary, one member from the Bloc Québécois, one member from the New Democratic Party, and one from the Progressive Conservative Party to compose the subcommittee. Do you want to go with that procedure again?
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Mr. John Cummins: So moved.
(Motion agreed to)
Mr. John Cummins: Could I make another motion?
The Chairman: Yes, go ahead.
Mr. John Cummins: During the first session the committee undertook some important studies, which I think resulted in some significant reports. These got shelved when Parliament was called back. So I would move that the chair be authorized to immediately table in the House all outstanding reports of this committee and request a formal response from the government as per Standing Order 109.
A voice: We don't have any outstanding.
The Chairman: There are no outstanding ones?
Mr. John Cummins: None?
The Chairman: I don't think there are. I think they were all tabled during the summer.
Mr. John Cummins: They were? I wasn't aware of that.
The Chairman: The other items on the routine motions, points one to eight, were the 48-hour rule, etc. Do we want to adopt these as procedures of the committee again this time? They're identical to what they were last.
Mr. Carmen Provenzano (Sault Ste. Marie, Lib.): I so move.
(Motion agreed to)
The Chairman: That concludes the agenda, but there's one other item I would like to bring up.
I have talked to a number of people, and we've asked Mr. Dhaliwal, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, to be available tomorrow, if it's agreed with the committee, to deal with the fisheries issues in eastern Canada at the moment. He can come from nine to ten, and his officials from ten to eleven. If there's agreement on that, then the clerk can put out the motion and we can get started. Is there agreement to do that, to have the minister here?
Some hon. members: Agreed.
The Chairman: Okay. There's one other item. When can we meet as a steering committee?
Mr. Peter Stoffer (Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore, NDP): Right after the vote.
The Chairman: Could we meet sometime tomorrow, Peter, and give people time to get their list together, so that we can...?
Mr. Peter Stoffer: Eleven o'clock tomorrow.
The Chairman: Is eleven o'clock tomorrow okay? Then we'll meet at eleven o'clock tomorrow, immediately following the official meeting.
Mr. Yvan Bernier (Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Pabok, BQ): What will be the subject?
The Chairman: What are the items of priority that we want to deal with in the next few weeks?
Mr. Yvan Bernier: We want to see the minister tomorrow.
The Chairman: He's coming tomorrow.
Mr. Yvan Bernier: Okay.
The Chairman: He'll be here at nine.
Thank you. The meeting is adjourned.