STANDING COMMITTEE ON ESTIMATES

COMITÉ PERMANENT DES BUDGETS DES DÉPENSES

Wednesday 21 May 2003 Mercredi 21 mai 2003

COMMITTEE BUSINESS


Wednesday 21 May 2003 Mercredi 21 mai 2003

The committee met at 1613 in committee room 1.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

The Vice-Chair (Mr Alvin Curling): May I call the estimates meeting to order? Let me just read our proceedings here. We're called to order for us to be considering --

Mr Ted Chudleigh (Halton): Mr Chair, may I make a motion? Since this has only just been introduced in the House and we're really not prepared to look at ministries at this point in time, I'd call for an adjournment of this committee.

Mr John O'Toole (Durham): I second that motion.

Mr Chudleigh: I think "All in favour" is the next --

The Vice-Chair: The Liberal members are not here, you see. I want to put the question, but the members of the Liberals --

Mr O'Toole: I'll sit in the chair and you can --

Mr Frank Mazzilli (London-Fanshawe): They've got bigger issues to deal with than this.

Mr Chudleigh: But it doesn't matter. The four of us are here.

The Vice-Chair: You mean to say that the majority is there, right? OK, let me put the question. You've asked that we have an adjournment. Do you want to put a date to that? Next Wednesday?

Mr Chudleigh: The Chair is perfectly capable of calling another meeting whenever he wants. He did it with very, very short notice today, with no notification to us.

The Vice-Chair: So I presume it's a straight adjournment until Tuesday?

Mr Michael Prue (Beaches-East York): I don't know; I'm prepared to proceed. The majority says no? I already know what we want.

The Vice-Chair: The question then is that we adjourn until the call of the Chair for the estimates.

Mr Chudleigh: That would be good. Next Wednesday would be good.

The Vice-Chair: The call of the Chair could be -- are you changing the motion to Wednesday?

Mr Chudleigh: Whenever you like. Next Wednesday, the call of the Chair -- we're magnanimous.

The Vice-Chair: To the call of the Chair; the earliest time is on Tuesday. Is that the consensus of the committee? All in favour? Agreed. It seems that we stand adjourned until the call of the Chair.

The committee adjourned at 1615.

CONTENTS

Wednesday 21 May 2003

Committee business E-1

STANDING COMMITTEE ON ESTIMATES

Chair / Président

Mr Gerard Kennedy (Parkdale-High Park L)

Vice-Chair / Vice-Président

Mr Alvin Curling (Scarborough-Rouge River L)

Mr Gilles Bisson (Timmins-James Bay / Timmins-Baie James ND)

Mr Ted Chudleigh (Halton PC)

Mr Alvin Curling (Scarborough-Rouge River L)

Mr Gerard Kennedy (Parkdale-High Park L)

Mr Frank Mazzilli (London-Fanshawe PC)

Mr Norm Miller (Parry Sound-Muskoka PC)

Mr John O'Toole (Durham PC)

Mr Steve Peters (Elgin-Middlesex-London L)

Substitutions / Membres remplaçants

Mr Michael Prue (Beaches-East York ND)

Clerk / Greffier

Mr Trevor Day

Staff / Personnel

Ms Anne Marzalik, research officer

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