STANDING COMMITTEE ON COMITÉ PERMANENT DE
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE L'ADMINISTRATION DE LA JUSTICE
CONTENTS
Tuesday 2 December 1997
Election of Chair
Appointment of subcommittee
STANDING COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
Chair / Président
Mr Jerry J. Ouellette (Oshawa PC)
Vice-Chair / Vice-Président
Mr E.J. Douglas Rollins (Quinte PC)
Mr Dave Boushy (Sarnia PC)
Mr Bruce Crozier (Essex South / -Sud L)
Mr Peter Kormos (Welland-Thorold ND)
Mr Gerry Martiniuk (Cambridge PC)
Mr Jerry J. Ouellette (Oshawa PC)
Mr David Ramsay (Timiskaming L)
Mr Douglas E.J. Rollins (Quinte PC)
Mr R. Gary Stewart (Peterborough PC)
Mr Bob Wood (London South / -Sud PC)
Clerk / Greffier
Mr Douglas Arnott
STANDING COMMITTEE ON COMITÉ PERMANENT DE
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE L'ADMINISTRATION DE LA JUSTICE
Tuesday 2 December 1997 Mardi 2 décembre 1997
The committee met at 1532 in room 228.
ELECTION OF CHAIR
Clerk of the Committee (Mr Douglas Arnott): Honourable members, it is my duty to call upon you to elect a Chair of the committee. Are there any nominations?
Mr R. Gary Stewart (Peterborough): It's my pleasure to nominate Mr Jerry Ouellette as Chair of the justice committee.
Clerk of the Committee: Are there any further nominations?
Mr Peter Kormos (Welland-Thorold): I'd like to nominate Toni Skarica, please.
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Skarica is not a member of this committee.
Mr Kormos: My apologies. I'd like to nominate Gary Carr.
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Carr is not a member of this committee.
Mr Kormos: Unfortunate.
Clerk of the Committee: Are there any further nominations? There being no further nominations, I declare Mr Ouellette elected Chair of the committee.
The Chair (Mr Jerry J. Ouellette): Thank you very much. I'd just like to say that I'll endeavour to be as fair as possible and reasonable on all issues and I look forward to working with all the members of the committee.
Mr E.J. Douglas Rollins (Quinte): Oh no.
The Chair: Oh yes, Mr Rollins, I shall be, and if past performance is a future dictator, I think with the experience I had in resources, it would be expected that individuals can see that I would be fair.
Mr David Ramsay (Timiskaming): We'll still go to the north to travel, though?
The Chair: I certainly hope so. I'm looking forward to it.
We'll move on to the next business of the committee, a motion.
APPOINTMENT OF SUBCOMMITTEE
Mr Bob Wood (London South): 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 of the committee as Chair, Mr Martiniuk, Mr Ramsay and Mr Kormos; and that substitution be permitted on the subcommittee.
The Chair: Further discussion? All those in favour? Carried.
New business?
Mr Ramsay: There are a couple of private members' bills that have been referred to this committee. I was wondering if we could start to discuss or set a date for a subcommittee meeting when these could be discussed so that we could plan our business of this committee. Bill 111 is one of them, I believe, and Bill 83 is another one that has been referred to this committee for second reading consideration.
The Chair: I believe it would be appropriate to have the subcommittee meet after this meeting if there's agreement within the subcommittee.
Mr Ramsay: Fine.
The Chair: We will. Any further new business that needs to be discussed at this time?
Mr Bruce Crozier (Essex South): Chair, I think we shouldn't go without recognizing, albeit I haven't been on this committee all that long, but Mr Martiniuk, who has retired, I think for the most part, although not entirely, served well as the Chair. If you were to be as fair in most instances as he was, we would appreciate that. We wish Mr Martiniuk well.
Mr Ramsay: I second that, Mr Chair.
The Chair: I shall endeavour to fill the chair.
Mr Kormos: And so even-tempered.
Mr Rollins: Mad all the time.
The Chair: No further new business at this time? We'll conclude this meeting until the notice of the Chair.
The committee adjourned at 1536.