The committee met at 1500 in room 151.

Committee business

The Chair (Ms. Laurie Scott): Good afternoon, everyone. The Standing Committee on the Legislative Assembly will now come to order. As a reminder for all members, please wait to be recognized by myself before speaking. All questions and comments will need to go through the Chair.

On the agenda for today’s meeting is committee business. I ask, are there any motions? MPP McDonell.

Mr. Jim McDonell: I move that the committee enter closed session for the purposes of organizing committee business.

The Chair (Ms. Laurie Scott): Any discussions? MPP Burch.

Mr. Jeff Burch: I’d ask that we have a recorded vote, and I’d just say that we are opposed to moving in camera. We don’t see a need to move in camera, and we think that business should be conducted out in the open.

The Chair (Ms. Laurie Scott): Any more discussion? Are the members ready to vote?

Ayes

Barrett, Ghamari, McDonell, Oosterhoff, Pang.

Nays

Burch.

The Chair (Ms. Laurie Scott): I declare the motion carried.

We’ll now recess for a few minutes to go into closed session.

The committee recessed at 1502 and later continued in closed session.

STANDING COMMITTEE ON THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

Chair / Présidente

Ms. Laurie Scott (Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes–Brock PC)

Vice-Chair / Vice-Présidente

M^me France Gélinas (Nickel Belt ND)

Ms. Rima Berns-McGown (Beaches–East York ND)

M^me France Gélinas (Nickel Belt ND)

Ms. Goldie Ghamari (Carleton PC)

Mr. Mike Harris (Kitchener–Conestoga PC)

Mr. Faisal Hassan (York South–Weston / York-Sud–Weston ND)

Mr. Jim McDonell (Stormont–Dundas–South Glengarry PC)

Mr. Sam Oosterhoff (Niagara West / Niagara-Ouest PC)

Ms. Laurie Scott (Haliburton–Kawartha Lakes–Brock PC)

Mr. Vijay Thanigasalam (Scarborough–Rouge Park PC)

Substitutions / Membres remplaçants

Mr. Toby Barrett (Haldimand–Norfolk PC)

Mr. Jeff Burch (Niagara Centre / Niagara-Centre ND)

Mr. Michael Mantha (Algoma–Manitoulin ND)

Mr. Billy Pang (Markham–Unionville PC)

Clerk / Greffière

Ms. Tanzima Khan

Staff / Personnel

Ms. Heather Conklin, research officer,
Research Services