The committee met at 0903 in committee room 1.

ELECTION OF CHAIR

The Clerk of the Committee (Mr. Trevor Day): Honourable members, it is my duty to call upon you to elect a Chair. Are there any nominations?

Ms. Helena Jaczek: I nominate Bill Mauro.

The Clerk of the Committee (Mr. Trevor Day): Mr. Mauro, do you accept the nomination?

Mr. Bill Mauro: I do.

The Clerk of the Committee (Mr. Trevor Day): Are there any further nominations? Any further nominations? Seeing no further nominations, I declare nominations closed and Mr. Mauro duly elected as Chair.

The Chair (Mr. Bill Mauro): Thank you.

ELECTION OF VICE-CHAIR

The Chair (Mr. Bill Mauro): Okay, we’re looking for a motion to appoint the Vice-Chair. Ms. Sandals?

Mrs. Liz Sandals: I nominate Phil McNeely to be the Vice-Chair.

The Chair (Mr. Bill Mauro): Phil McNeely. Any other nominations? All in favour of Mr. McNeely as Vice-Chair? Well, Phil, you’ve swept the room.

APPOINTMENT OF SUBCOMMITTEE

The Chair (Mr. Bill Mauro): Subcommittee.

Mrs. Liz Sandals: I have the motion.

The Chair (Mr. Bill Mauro): Ms. Sandals.

Mrs. Liz Sandals: I move that a subcommittee on committee business be appointed to meet from time to time at the call of the Chair or at the request of any member thereof, to consider and report to the committee on the business of the committee;

That the presence of all members of the subcommittee is necessary to constitute a meeting;

That the subcommittee be composed of the following members: the Chair as chair, Ms. Jaczek, Mr. McDonell and Mr. Tabuns; and

That substitution be permitted on the subcommittee.

The Chair (Mr. Bill Mauro): Thank you. Any discussion? Are members ready to vote? All in favour? Carried.

BRIEFING

The Clerk of the Committee (Mr. Trevor Day): Welcome to the committee. This particular committee has a two-part mandate, one being the review of intended appointments to certain agencies, boards and commissions, the other being the review of those agencies, boards and commissions.

I’ve left a copy of the standing orders at each person’s spot. You’ve also received a copy of the resource binder.

I don’t want to go into any huge detail here. There is a process laid out where the subcommittee will make selections on intended appointments for each of your parties. I was hoping that the subcommittee members could stay back a little bit after the meeting, just so we can start that process.

Other than that, I am here for your confidential, impartial advice on procedural matters and on the workings of the committee. My contact information is on the resource binder at the back, and I’m happy to answer any questions anyone has, be it before, after or during the committee.

I’m going to turn it over to Larry, just briefly, for his role.

Mr. Larry Johnston: My name is Larry Johnston, research officer for the committee. Research provides backgrounders for the agency appointments and agency reviews, conducts research at the request of the committee, and drafts committee reports on the instructions of the committee. And, of course, individual members can always consult Research for non-partisan, objective research.

The Chair (Mr. Bill Mauro): Any questions on any of that? Seeing none, okay, thank you very much. I think we’re adjourned.

The committee adjourned at 0906.

CONTENTS

Tuesday 6 March 2012

Election of Chair A-1

Election of Vice-Chair A-1

Appointment of subcommittee A-1

Briefing A-1

STANDING COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Chair / Président

Mr. Bill Mauro (Thunder Bay–Atikokan L)

Vice-Chair / Vice-Président

Mr. Phil McNeely (Ottawa–Orléans L)

Mrs. Donna H. Cansfield (Etobicoke Centre / Etobicoke-Centre L)

Ms. Helena Jaczek (Oak Ridges–Markham L)

Mr. Bill Mauro (Thunder Bay–Atikokan L)

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

Mr. Phil McNeely (Ottawa–Orléans L)

Mr. Randy Pettapiece (Perth–Wellington PC)

Mr. Peter Tabuns (Toronto–Danforth ND)

Miss Monique Taylor (Hamilton Mountain ND)

Ms. Lisa Thompson (Huron–Bruce PC)

Substitutions / Membres remplaçants

Mr. Rosario Marchese (Trinity–Spadina ND)

Mrs. Liz Sandals (Guelph L)

Clerk / Greffier

Mr. Trevor Day

Staff / Personnel

Mr. Larry Johnston, research officer,
Legislative Research Service