EVIDENCE Standing Committee on Health NUMBER 011 2nd SESSION 41st PARLIAMENT Tuesday, February 4, 2014 Le mardi février Standing Committee on Health CANADA [Recorded by Electronic Apparatus] EVIDENCE February 4, 2014 Committee Edited Evidence * Table of Contents * Number 011 (Official Version) Official Report * Table of Contents * Number 011 (Official Version) Témoignages * Table des matières * Numéro 011 (Version officielle) 11 04 02 2014 2014/02/04 08:50:00 House of Commons Comité permanent de la santé Standing Committee on Health HESA Chair Mr.

Ben Lobb 41 2 (0850) [ Translation ] The Clerk of the Committee (Mr. Andrew Bartholomew Chaplin) : Honourable members, I see we have quorum. [ English ] We can now proceed to the election of the chair. Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the chair must be a member of the governing party. I'm now ready to receive motions for the post of chair. Mr. Wilks. Mr. David Wilks (Kootenay—Columbia, CPC) : I move to nominate Ben Lobb as chair. The Clerk : It has been moved by Mr. Wilks that Ben Lobb be elected chair of the committee. Are there any further motions? Mr.

Wladyslaw Lizon (Mississauga East—Cooksville, CPC) : I would like to second that. The Clerk : The committee has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion? Some hon. members: Agreed. (Motion agreed to) The Clerk: I declare the motion carried and Ben Lobb duly elected chair of the committee. Before inviting the chair to preside, if the committee wishes, we could now proceed to the election of vice-chairs.

Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the first vice-chair must be a member of the official opposition. [ Translation ] I am now ready to receive motions for the vice-chair. Mr. Morin, you have the floor. Mr. Dany Morin (Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, NDP) : I nominate Ms. Libby Davies. The Clerk : Are there any other motions? [ English ] Ms. Eve Adams (Mississauga—Brampton South, CPC) : I would like to second that member of Parliament Libby Davies be vice-chair. [ Translation ] The Clerk : Moved by Mr. Morin that Ms.

Libby Davies be elected vice-chair of the committee. [ English ] The committee has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion? Some hon. members: Agreed. (Motion agreed to) The Clerk: I declare the motion carried and Libby Davies duly elected first vice-chair of the committee. Pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), the second vice-chair must be a member of an opposition party other than the official opposition. I'm now prepared to receive a motion for second vice-chair. Mr. Lunney. Mr. James Lunney (Nanaimo—Alberni, CPC) : Yes, I propose Dr. Hedy Fry.

The Clerk : It has been moved by Mr. Lunney that Hedy Fry be elected as second vice-chair of the committee. The committee has heard the terms of the motion. Is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion? Some hon. members: Agreed. (Motion agreed to) The Clerk: I declare the motion carried and Hedy Fry duly elected second vice-chair of the committee. The Chair (Mr. Ben Lobb (Huron—Bruce, CPC)) : Welcome back and again thank you, everybody, for not saying no when you had a chance to. It's great to be back. We have a few new members to our committee who are very qualified and very knowledgeable.

It's great to have you two gentlemen on our committee to add to the discussion. We've done the business we're here to do today. Is there any other business we'd like to do? Ms. Libby Davies (Vancouver East, NDP) : Move to adjourn. The Chair : The only thing we could discuss, if you want to for a couple of minutes, is our meeting on Thursday. We'd like to have a meeting on Thursday, if we can get all the witnesses put together. If we can do that, we'll march right along and advise everybody, if we can get the witnesses to be here on time.

Maybe too, while we just have everybody here, I know we didn't discuss this, but would you like to give us a little update about what kind of work you were working on over the break? Would you like to do that, or would you want to wait for another meeting? Do we want to talk about that, or do you want to wait until Thursday to discuss that? What are the committee's thoughts on that? An hon. member: Wait until Thursday. Ms. Libby Davies : We will probably have a motion from Eve on Thursday as well. The Chair : Perfect. That works well. I just wanted to make sure everybody was advised.

If there's nothing else, we'll adjourn the meeting.