Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The committee met at 0900 in room 151.

Subcommittee reports

The Chair (Mr. Will Bouma): Good morning, everyone. The committee will now come to order. We are meeting today to consider several subcommittee reports. We are joined by staff from legislative research, Hansard, and broadcast and recording.

To make sure that everyone can understand what is going on, it is important that all participants speak slowly and clearly. Please wait until I recognize you before starting to speak. As always, all comments by members and witnesses should go through the Chair.

All of the subcommittee reports were distributed in advance. We have the subcommittee reported dated December 8, 2022. Could I please have a motion? Mr. Coe.

Mr. Lorne Coe: Chair, through you, I move the adoption of the subcommittee report on intended appointments dated Thursday, December 8, 2022, on the order-in-council certificate dated Friday, December 2, 2022.

The Chair (Mr. Will Bouma): Member Coe has moved the report. Any discussion? Seeing none, are members ready to vote? All those in favour? Good. Seeing none opposed, carried.

Next, we have the subcommittee report dated December 15, 2022. Member Coe.

Mr. Lorne Coe: Through you, Chair, I move the adoption of the subcommittee report on intended appointments dated Thursday, December 15, 2022, on the order-in-council certificate dated Friday, December 9, 2022.

The Chair (Mr. Will Bouma): Member Coe has moved the subcommittee report. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, are members ready to vote? All those in favour? Any opposed? Seeing none, carried.

Next, we have the subcommittee reported dated December 22, 2022. Member Coe.

Mr. Lorne Coe: Chair, through you, I move adoption of the subcommittee report on intended appointments dated Thursday, December 22, 2022, on the order-in-council certificate dated Friday, December 16, 2022.

The Chair (Mr. Will Bouma): Member Coe has moved the report. Any discussion? Seeing none, are members ready to vote? All those in favour? That’s unanimous. Carried.

Next, we have the subcommittee report dated January 26, 2023. Could I please have a motion? Member Coe.

Mr. Lorne Coe: Chair, through you, I move adoption of the subcommittee report on intended appointments dated Thursday, January 26, 2023, on the order-in-council certificate dated Friday, January 20, 2023.

The Chair (Mr. Will Bouma): Very good. Is there any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, are members ready to vote? All those in favour? That’s unanimous. Carried.

Next up, we have the subcommittee report dated February 2, 2023. Member Coe, do you have a motion?

Mr. Lorne Coe: Chair, through you, I move adoption of the subcommittee report on intended appointments dated Thursday, February 2, 2023, on the order-in-council certificate dated Friday, January 27, 2023.

The Chair (Mr. Will Bouma): Any discussion on the motion?

Mr. Mike Harris: Chair?

The Chair (Mr. Will Bouma): Yes, member Harris.

Mr. Mike Harris: I just want to say thank you very much for moving us through this very expeditiously this morning. I wanted to get that on the record.

The Chair (Mr. Will Bouma): Thank you, member Harris. Any further discussion?

Interjection.

The Chair (Mr. Will Bouma): Yes, thank you for the commentary.

Laughter.

Mr. Mike Harris: How does Hansard pick up an interjection like that?

The Chair (Mr. Will Bouma): I don’t know how they translate it either, actually, so that’s fine.

Any further discussion? Are members ready to vote? All those in favour? That’s unanimous. Carried.

And we have one more: the subcommittee report dated February 16. Could I have a motion? Member Coe.

Mr. Lorne Coe: Chair, through you, I move adoption of the subcommittee report on intended appointments dated Thursday, February 16, 2023, on the order-in-council certificate dated Friday, February 10, 2023.

The Chair (Mr. Will Bouma): Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, are members ready to vote? All those in favour? It’s unanimous. Carried.

There’s just one more item here: Committee members, the deadline to review the intended appointment of Trina Morissette, selected from the January 27, 2023, certificate, is February 26, 2023. Do we have unanimous agreement to extend the deadline to consider the intended appointment of Trina Morissette to March 28, 2023? Hearing a no, that is not carried.

That concludes our business for today. The committee now stands adjourned. Thank you, everyone.

The committee adjourned at 0904.

STANDING COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Chair / Président

Mr. Will Bouma (Brantford–Brant PC)

Vice-Chair / Vice-Président

Mr. John Fraser (Ottawa South / Ottawa-Sud L)

Ms. Doly Begum (Scarborough Southwest / Scarborough-Sud-Ouest ND)

Mr. Will Bouma (Brantford–Brant PC)

Mr. Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk–James Bay / Mushkegowuk–Baie James ND)

Mr. Lorne Coe (Whitby PC)

Mr. John Fraser (Ottawa South / Ottawa-Sud L)

M^me Dawn Gallagher Murphy (Newmarket–Aurora PC)

Mr. Mike Harris (Kitchener–Conestoga PC)

Mr. Trevor Jones (Chatham-Kent–Leamington PC)

Mr. Billy Pang (Markham–Unionville PC)

Ms. Chandra Pasma (Ottawa West–Nepean / Ottawa-Ouest–Nepean ND)

Mr. Sheref Sabawy (Mississauga–Erin Mills PC)

Mr. Amarjot Sandhu (Brampton West / Brampton-Ouest PC)

Clerk / Greffier

Mr. Isaiah Thorning

Staff / Personnel

Ms. Lauren Warner, research officer,
Research Services