STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
COMITÉ PERMANENT DES COMPTES PUBLICS
Thursday 24 June 2004 Jeudi 24 juin 2004
The committee met at 1005 in committee room 1.
ELECTION OF CHAIR
Clerk of the Committee (Ms Susan Sourial): Honourable members, it is my duty to call upon you to elect a Chair. Are there any nominations?
Ms Laurel C. Broten (Etobicoke-Lakeshore): I'd like to nominate Norm Sterling as Chair.
Clerk of the Committee: Are there any further nom-inations?
Mr Richard Patten (Ottawa Centre): We want to know his qualifications.
Mr Norman W. Sterling (Lanark-Carleton): I humbly accept.
Clerk of the Committee: Seeing none, I declare nominations closed and Mr Sterling elected Chair.
The Chair (Mr Norman W. Sterling): Thank you very much. My acceptance speech is 30 minutes.
Mr Michael A. Brown (Algoma-Manitoulin): OK, we'll be back.
Mrs Liz Sandals (Guelph-Wellington): Do you want us to retract?
ELECTION OF VICE-CHAIR
The Chair: Nominations for Vice-Chair?
Mrs Sandals: I would like to nominate Julia Munro.
The Chair: Any other nominations? Seeing none, I move that nominations be closed. Any objections? All in favour? I declare Julia as our Vice-Chair.
APPOINTMENT OF SUBCOMMITTEE
The Chair: Now I'd like to have appointment of the subcommittee on committee business.
Mr Brown: I move that a subcommittee on committee business be appointed to meet from time to time at the call of the Chair, or on the request of any member thereof, to consider and report to the committee on the business of the committee; that the subcommittee be composed of the following members: the Chair as chair; Ms Munro; Ms Martel; and Ms Broten; that the presence of all members of the subcommittee is necessary to constitute a meeting; and that substitutions be permitted on the subcommittee.
The Chair: Any discussion? All in favour? Thank you very much.
Any additional business before the summer that anybody would like to raise at this point?
Mr Patten: Yes. I understand that our clerks are shifting. On behalf of the committee, I would like to thank Anne very much for the job she has done over the years. We will miss you.
The Chair: I'd like to add my thanks as well, on behalf of the other members of the committee on the opposition side.
Members of the committee should know that this is done, I guess, to ensure that clerks gain experience in front of all the different committees and that it is quite a normal process for them to rotate from time to time.
Anne, I'm sorry you won't be in Fredericton with us; I hope your committee travels widely and often. All the best.
Laurel, I think they were asking us to meet to choose a new auditor. As you know, Jim is still our acting auditor. Have you been approached on that at all?
Ms Broten: No, I haven't heard anything about that.
The Chair: We'll have to talk about that, because the process should get underway, perhaps this summer. Maybe you could talk to me about it. As the Chair of this committee, I feel some obligation to see that that process gets on its way.
Ms Broten: Sure, I'll follow up with that.
Have we had a motion passed to be able to sit over the summer? I think that might be being done today.
Interjection.
Ms Broten: Expected today? OK.
The Chair: I know that it was in the works.
I hadn't heard. Was it August and September, or August? I understand the House is coming back in mid-October, so it would be in that period of time.
Thank you very much. Everybody have a good summer.
The committee adjourned at 1009.
CONTENTS
Thursday 24 June 2004
Election of Chair P-245
Election of Vice-Chair P-245
Appointment of subcommittee P-245
STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
Chair / Président
Mr Norman W. Sterling (Lanark-Carleton PC)
Vice-Chair / Vice-Présidente
Mrs Julia Munro (York North / York-Nord PC)
Ms Laurel C. Broten (Etobicoke-Lakeshore L)
Mr Jim Flaherty (Whitby-Ajax PC)
Ms Shelley Martel (Nickel Belt ND)
Mr Bill Mauro (Thunder Bay-Atikokan L)
Mrs Julia Munro (York North / York-Nord PC)
Mr Richard Patten (Ottawa Centre / Ottawa-Centre L)
Mr Shafiq Qaadri (Etobicoke North / Etobicoke-Nord L)
Mrs Liz Sandals (Guelph-Wellington L)
Mr Norman W. Sterling (Lanark-Carleton PC)
Mr David Zimmer (Willowdale L)
Substitutions / Membres remplaçants
Mr Michael A. Brown (Algoma-Manitoulin L)
Mr Brad Duguid (Scarborough Centre / Scarborough-Centre L)
Clerk / Greffière
Ms Susan Sourial
Staff / Personnel
Mr Ray McLellan, research officer,
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