Legislative Assembly of Ontario

The committee met at 1504 in committee room 1 and by video conference.

Committee business

The Chair (Mr. Roman Baber): Good afternoon. I will now convene this meeting of the justice policy committee to discuss organization of business on Bill 207.

For the purposes of clarity, if we have to hold a vote today, it will be through a show of hands, even for the folks on Zoom. I’ll start by asking, “Are members ready to vote?” If I understand that members are ready, I’ll ask for all those in favour and all those opposed, and then I will declare the vote. Unless someone specifically asks for a recorded vote, the breakdown of the vote will not show up in Hansard.

Bill 207, which is An Act to amend the Children’s Law Reform Act, the Courts of Justice Act, the Family Law Act and other Acts respecting various family law matters, has been referred to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy. I welcome all members to discuss business today.

I recognize MPP Will Bouma.

Mr. Will Bouma: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would move that the committee enter closed session for the purposes of organizing committee business and that broadcasting staff be permitted to remain in the closed session meeting for the purposes of operating the electronic meeting technology, including facilitating unmuting of members’ microphones.

The Chair (Mr. Roman Baber): Thank you. Mr. Bouma moves that the committee enter closed session for the purposes of organizing committee business and that broadcasting shall be permitted to remain in the closed session meeting for the purposes of operating the electronic meeting technology. Are members ready to vote on the motion? All those in favour? All those opposed? I declare the motion carried.

So we’ll exercise as such, please. We need a couple of minutes to organize that. I’m not inclined to suspend the committee. We’ll just stay put, please.

The committee continued in closed session at 1507.

STANDING COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE POLICY

Chair / Président

Mr. Roman Baber (York Centre / York-Centre PC)

Vice-Chair / Vice-Présidente

Ms. Effie J. Triantafilopoulos (Oakville North–Burlington / Oakville-Nord–Burlington PC)

Mr. Roman Baber (York Centre / York-Centre PC)

Mr. Will Bouma (Brantford–Brant PC)

M^me Lucille Collard (Ottawa–Vanier L)

Mr. Parm Gill (Milton PC)

Ms. Natalia Kusendova (Mississauga Centre / Mississauga-Centre PC)

Ms. Suze Morrison (Toronto Centre / Toronto-Centre ND)

Ms. Lindsey Park (Durham PC)

Mr. Gurratan Singh (Brampton East / Brampton-Est ND)

Mrs. Nina Tangri (Mississauga–Streetsville PC)

Ms. Effie J. Triantafilopoulos (Oakville North–Burlington / Oakville-Nord–Burlington PC)

Mr. Kevin Yarde (Brampton North / Brampton-Nord ND)

Substitutions / Membres remplaçants

Mr. Vincent Ke (Don Valley North / Don Valley-Nord PC)

Mr. Daryl Kramp (Hastings–Lennox and Addington PC)

Miss Monique Taylor (Hamilton Mountain ND)

Clerk / Greffière

Ms. Thushitha Kobikrishna

Staff / Personnel

Ms. Heather Conklin, research officer,
Research Services

Mr. Andrew McNaught, research officer,
Research Services