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CANADA

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development

NUMBER 001 
l
3rd SESSION 
l
40th PARLIAMENT 

EVIDENCE

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

[Recorded by Electronic Apparatus]

(1105)

[English]

The Clerk of the Committee (Mrs. Carmen DePape):
    Honourable members of the committee, I see a quorum.
    We can now proceed with the election of the chair. I am ready to receive motions to that effect.
    An hon. member: I don't think you can win this vote, Dean.
    Some hon. members: Oh, oh!
Mr. Dean Allison (Niagara West—Glanbrook, CPC):
    I'm going to need help from you guys.
The Clerk:
    Mr. Goldring.
Mr. Peter Goldring (Edmonton East, CPC):
    I would like to nominate Mr. Allison as chair.
The Clerk:
    It has been moved by Mr. Goldring that Mr. Allison be elected as chair of the committee.
    Are there 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. Allison duly elected chair of the committee.
    Before inviting the chair to come forward, if the committee wishes we will proceed with the election of the vice-chairs.
    I am now ready to receive motions for the first vice-chair, a member of the official opposition.
    Madame Lalonde.

[Translation]

Ms. Francine Lalonde (La Pointe-de-l'Île, BQ):
    I nominate Mr. Patry.

[English]

The Clerk:
    It has been moved by Madame Lalonde that Dr. Patry be elected first vice-chair of the committee.
     Are there further motions?
    Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
    (Motion agreed to)
    The Clerk: I declare the motion carried and Bernard Patry duly elected as first vice-chair of the committee.

[Translation]

    I am now ready to receive motions for the position of second vice-chair.
Ms. Johanne Deschamps (Laurentides—Labelle, BQ):
    I nominate Ms. Francine Lalonde.
The Clerk:
    Moved by Ms. Deschamps that Ms. Lalonde be elected second vice-chair of the committee.
    Are there any other motions?
    (Motion agreed to.)

[English]

The Clerk:
    I now invite the chair to take the chair.
The Chair (Mr. Dean Allison (Niagara West—Glanbrook, CPC)):
    I believe you all have the routine motions, and since I am a new member of this committee, this is just a reminder to me as well as to all of you here.
    I believe we have one other new member, Dave Van Kesteren, on the committee.
    On Wednesday, March 3, 2010, the House of Commons adopted the following order:
That, for all standing committees, routine motions in effect at the time of prorogation of the previous session be deemed to have been adopted in the current session, provided that committees be empowered to alter or rescind such motions as they deem appropriate.
    Accordingly, the routine motions that were in effect at the time of prorogation are reinstated. The clerk will reflect the House order in the minutes of this meeting. The committee can, if it chooses, amend any of these motions.
    Finally, for information purposes, the clerk has distributed a copy of the motions to all committee members.
    Is there any discussion on that?
    Seeing none, we'll move forward with that.
    Madame Lalonde.

[Translation]

Ms. Francine Lalonde:
    I believe we have accomplished what we came here for today and we must convene the steering committee to organize the committee's work.

[English]

The Chair:
    Thank you very much, Madame Lalonde. I was actually going to suggest that we look at striking a committee and that we set a date and time to meet to discuss the potential business of the committee moving forward.
    I believe the way the subcommittee has worked in the past is that we have had the vice-chair of each committee, as well as the chair, as well as Mr. Dewar, as well as the parliamentary secretary. Is that correct? I guess we have consent to proceed in that fashion then.
    The Clerk: Not the parliamentary secretary, though.
    No, I'm sorry, the parliamentary secretary is there.
    You are there; I apologize.
Mr. Deepak Obhrai (Calgary East, CPC):
    Oh, man, I'd feel terrible, for all these things that I'd raised earlier on....
The Chair:
    Yes; or at least one of them.
    Do we want to set a time for a steering meeting? Or what do we want to move forward on?
    Go ahead.
Mr. Bernard Patry (Pierrefonds—Dollard, Lib.):
    I say as soon as possible.
The Chair:
    Would Thursday morning make sense, let's say at 9 o'clock?
    An hon. member: Yes, fine.
    An hon. member: No problem.
    The Chair: All right. But would the steering meeting be in replacement of the meeting, or would we want to have it before so that we continue with our meeting?
    Mr. Obhrai.
Mr. Deepak Obhrai:
    Mr. Chair, my suggestion is that we have a steering committee meeting and then we have the main committee meeting after that, because whatever happens in the steering committee we have to pass in the main committee so that it can be processed. From Tuesday we can go back....
    If we delay going to the main committee, then whatever was discussed in the steering committee would be delayed.
The Chair:
    Fair enough.
    My only other question is whether we'd like to meet at 9 a.m. or at 11 a.m. and have the regular meeting follow it at noon.
Mr. Deepak Obhrai:
    I'm open to whatever the opposition wants.
The Chair:
    Would there be enough time for a one-hour subcommittee meeting, and then follow it with a full meeting at 12 o'clock?
Mr. Bernard Patry:
    Don't look at us, look at him as to whether it's enough time.
Mr. Deepak Obhrai:
    That's fine; the main committee will discuss the steering committee issues, so why don't we have a steering committee from 11 to 12 and then the main committee from 12 to 1? Then we're done.
    The Chair: All right.
Mr. Bernard Patry:
    Can we pass any motions today, Mr. Chair, concerning...?
    Mr. Obhrai, Mr. Dewar, and I sent notices of motion. Is it in order now to pass a motion if we get unanimous consent?
The Chair:
    All the motions that have been received are in order. My thought is that we discuss them at the steering meeting. There's a number of them, and we could bring those forward as recommendations to the committee.
    Would that be all right?
Mr. Bernard Patry:
    Yes. That would be fine.
The Chair:
    Is there anything else?
    Thank you very much.
    The meeting is adjourned.
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