STANDING COMMITTEE
ON
JUSTICE POLICY
COMITÉ
PERMANENT
DE LA JUSTICE
Wednesday 27 October 2004 Mercredi 27 octobre 2004
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STATUTES REVIEW
The committee met at 0901 in room 228.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STATUTES REVIEW
The Acting Chair (Mr Mike Colle): I call the standing committee on justice policy to order for Wednesday, October 27. On the agenda today we have report writing. How do you wish to proceed?
Ms Laurel C. Broten (Etobicoke-Lakeshore): I'd like to move this session into closed session for the continuation of report writing for today and tomorrow.
The Chair: All in favour? Carried. We'll now move into report-writing stage.
The committee continued in closed session from 0902 to 1045.
The committee recessed from 1045 to 1055.
The Acting Chair: I'll bring the standing committee on justice policy to order. In this session, is there a motion to adopt the draft report?
Ms Broten: Yes. I'd like to move to adopt the draft report with the editorial changes we made this morning.
The Acting Chair: All in favour of the motion to adopt the draft report and the editorial changes made in the report-writing stage? We have a motion before us. Any objections? All in favour? Carried unanimously.
Secondly, shall the Acting Chair present the report to the House?
Ms Broten: I'd like to make a motion to translate and print the report as adopted by the committee.
The Acting Chair: OK. We have a motion to translate and print the report as adopted by the committee and to proceed, as Acting Chair, to present that report translated and printed to the House. All in favour of that? Carried unanimously.
The second part, dealing with the draft bill: Is there a motion to adopt the draft bill?
Ms Broten: I'd like to move to adopt the draft bill in the form reviewed this morning with the minor editing that was made during closed session.
The Acting Chair: Any questions or comments? There being none, all in favour of adopting the draft bill? Carried unanimously.
Secondly, I need a motion to translate and print the draft bill and introduce the bill to the House.
Ms Broten: I so move.
The Acting Chair: We've got a motion for the Acting Chair to introduce the bill to the House. Any discussion, comments? All in favour? Carried unanimously.
Any other items of business? There being none --
Ms Broten: I thought we should just thank everyone, the staff who helped us in what was a long but, I think, very invigorating process, as we worked together in an unusual circumstance to draft legislation. So thank you to the entirety of the committee and everyone who assisted us: to legal counsel, and thank you, Chair, for bringing us through this process, and to the research lawyers for helping us along, as well as the clerk.
The Acting Chair: As Acting Chair, I would like to thank all staff, from research, Avrum Fenson and Margaret Drent, for work above and beyond the call, and certainly the clerk, Katch Koch. We also had full co-operation from Hansard and everyone involved, and the members of the committee.
It was four long months, but I think well worth the effort and well worth the hard work you put into it. As Acting Chair, I want to thank you for your efforts and for your co-operation in getting this work done in terms of the report and a bill.
Mr David Zimmer (Willowdale): If I might add, a special thanks to the whip on the government side of the committee for steering us through this with efficiency and, I know, a tremendous amount of hard work.
The Acting Chair: Yes, and certainly to thank all the ministries and all the individuals, organizations, the participants from across Canada, California etc, who, by teleconference, gave us information. That input was most valued, and I think it'll be demonstrated in the report and in the bill.
Do I have a motion to adjourn?
Ms Broten: Yes.
The Acting Chair: Motion to adjourn. The committee now stands adjourned.
The committee adjourned at 1100.
CONTENTS
Wednesday 27 October 2004
Emergency management statutes review JP-369
STANDING COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE POLICY
Chair / Président
Mr David Orazietti (Sault Ste Marie L)
Vice-Chair / Vice-Président
Mr Bob Delaney (Mississauga West / Mississauga-Ouest L)
Mr Michael A. Brown (Algoma-Manitoulin L)
Mr Jim Brownell (Stormont-Dundas-Charlottenburgh L)
Mr Bob Delaney (Mississauga West / Mississauga-Ouest L)
Mr Kevin Daniel Flynn (Oakville L)
Mr Frank Klees (Oak Ridges PC)
Mr Peter Kormos (Niagara Centre / Niagara-Centre ND)
Mr David Orazietti (Sault Ste Marie L)
Mr Mario G. Racco (Thornhill L)
Mrs Elizabeth Witmer (Kitchener-Waterloo PC)
Substitutions / Membres remplaçants
Mr Wayne Arthurs (Pickering-Ajax-Uxbridge L)
Ms Laurel C. Broten (Etobicoke-Lakeshore L)
Mr Mike Colle (Eglinton-Lawrence L)
Mr Garfield Dunlop (Simcoe North / Simcoe-Nord PC)
Mrs Liz Sandals (Guelph-Wellington L)
Mr David Zimmer (Willowdale L)
Clerk / Greffier
Mr Katch Koch
Staff / Personnel
Mr Albert Nigro, legislative
counsel
Ms Margaret Drent and Mr Avrum Fenson, research officers,
Research and Information Services