CONTENTS
Wednesday 17 April 1991
Organization
Adjournment
STANDING COMMITTEE ON RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Kormos, Peter (Welland-Thorold NDP)
Vice-Chair: Waters, Daniel (Muskoka-Georgian Bay NDP)
Arnott, Ted (Wellington PC)
Cleary, John C. (Cornwall L)
Dadamo, George (Windsor-Sandwich NDP)
Huget, Bob (Sarnia NDP)
Jordan, Leo (Lanark-Renfrew PC)
Klopp, Paul (Huron NDP)
Murdock, Sharon (Sudbury NDP)
Offer, Steven (Mississauga North L)
Ramsay, David (Timiskaming L)
Wood, Len (Cochrane North NDP)
Clerk pro tem: Manikel, Tannis
Staff: Luski, Lorraine, Research Officer, Legislative Research Service
The committee met at 1534 in committee room 1.
ORGANIZATION
The Vice-Chair: I call the meeting to order. We have received the resignation of Bob Huget as of 4 April, so the first thing on the agenda for business would be the election of a new Chair. The floor is open for nominations.
Ms S. Murdock: I would like to nominate Peter Kormos.
The Vice-Chair: Any further nominations? Hearing no further nominations, I declare Peter Kormos the newly elected Chair of the standing committee on resources development. At this point I would then turn the chair over to the newly elected Chair.
The Chair: I want to thank Ms Murdock for her motion, thank the committee for the support and thank the Premier's office for not sending somebody running in here saying, "No, no, it's a mistake."
Mr Ramsay: I just would like to know some of the background, how this all happened. I think it is excellent. I think things are being patched up over there. It is great. It is good to see. Congratulations.
Ms S. Murdock: Thank you very much, Mr Ramsay.
The Chair: There is a motion, I understand, to be made by Mr Waters.
Mr Waters: Yes. I would like to move that a subcommittee of the committee 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 business of the committee; that substitution be permitted on the subcommittee; that the presence of all members of the subcommittee is necessary to constitute a meeting and that the subcommittee be composed of the following: Mr Kormos, myself, Mr Ramsay and Mr Arnott, which is the Chair and a member of each of the three parties.
The Chair: Any discussion regarding that motion? All in favour? Any opposed?
Motion agreed to.
The Chair: I am going to distribute a draft budget that has been prepared for consideration.
Mr Ramsay: Where are we going?
The Chair: Take a look at the draft budget. Any questions, of course, could be addressed to the clerk. Yes, Mr Waters?
Mr Waters: My question would be, is this to cover the zebra mussels and purple loosestrife?
Clerk of the Committee: Yes, the translation and printing of that report will have to be done in the new fiscal year. That is included in here, as well as in the event the committee meets during the spring session to consider some other matter and report thereon, requiring also a translation. Basically there are two report translations, two report printings and a number of other items, mainly just to keep the committee going during the spring session. If there are any summer meetings to be anticipated or any travel, that will have to be done by way of a supplementary budget.
Mr Arnott: I would like to question the second to last item -- transportation of goods, $500. Could you give us an explanation.
Clerk of the Committee: In the event anything has to be moved from one point to another that would be outside of courier service, in the way of reports or any other matter that has to be moved for us.
Mr Arnott: Okay.
Clerk of the Committee: We had to have some trucking done, I know, in the last committee I worked on, and that is where it would fall.
The Chair: Is there anybody who would move approval of the budget?
Mr Wood: I will move approval of the budget.
The Chair: Any discussion? All in favour? Any opposed?
Motion agreed to.
The Chair: Is there any new business people would wish to raise during this portion of the meeting? There will be a meeting of the subcommittee immediately upon the end of this meeting. Is there a motion for adjournment?
Ms S. Murdock: Before we move adjournment, Mr Chair, this committee sits every Wednesday afternoon at 3:30. Is that correct?
The Chair: Mondays and Wednesdays, I am told.
Clerk of the Committee: If there is business before it.
The Chair: Assuming there are things to deal with; otherwise it does not sit. Notice, of course, will be given promptly. There will be plenty of notice before meetings.
Ms S. Murdock: Yes, I am sure.
The Chair: The meeting is adjourned and the subcommittee will now meet. Thank you very much for your co-operation and assistance.
The committee adjourned at 1542.