CONTENTS
Wednesday 6 May 1998
Election of Chair
Election of Vice-Chair
Appointment of subcommittee
STANDING COMMITTEE ON THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Chair / Président
Mr Joseph N. Tascona (Simcoe Centre / -Centre PC)
Vice-Chair / Vice-Président
Mr Gary Fox (Prince Edward-Lennox-South Hastings /
Prince Edward-Lennox-Hastings-Sud PC)
Mr Alvin Curling (Scarborough North / -Nord L)
Mr Carl DeFaria (Mississauga East / -Est PC)
Mr Gary Fox (Prince Edward-Lennox-South Hastings /
Prince Edward-Lennox-Hastings-Sud PC)
Mr Ernie Hardeman (Oxford PC)
Mrs Helen Johns (Huron PC)
Mr Allan K. McLean (Simcoe East / -Est PC)
Mr Gilles E. Morin (Carleton East / -Est L)
Ms Marilyn Mushinski (Scarborough-Ellesmere PC)
Mr Peter North (Elgin Ind)
Mr Gilles Pouliot (Lake Nipigon / Lac-Nipigon ND)
Mr Joseph N. Tascona (Simcoe Centre / -Centre PC)
Substitutions / Membres remplaçants
Mr Toby Barrett (Norfolk PC)
Mr Jim Brown (Scarborough West / -Ouest PC)
Mr Morley Kells (Etobicoke-Lakeshore PC)
Mrs Julia Munro (Durham-York PC)
Clerk / Greffier
Mr Peter Sibenik
Staff / Personnel
Mr Andrew McNaught, research officer, Legislative Research Service
The committee met at 1532 in room 228.
ELECTION OF CHAIR
Clerk of the Committee (Mr Peter Sibenik): Honourable members, it is my duty to call upon you to elect a Chair from among your number. Are there any nominations?
Mr Gary Fox (Prince Edward-Lennox-South Hastings): I nominate Joe Tascona as Chair of the committee.
Clerk of the Committee: Mr Tascona is nominated. Are there any further nominations? In that event, seeing that there are no further nominations, I declare Mr Tascona elected Chair of the standing committee on the Legislative Assembly.
ELECTION OF VICE-CHAIR
The Chair (Mr Joseph N. Tascona): Honourable members, it's my duty to call upon you to elect a Vice-Chair. Are there any nominations?
Mr Morley Kells (Etobicoke-Lakeshore): I would like to nominate Gary Fox as Vice-Chair.
The Chair: Are there any further nominations? There being no further nominations, I declare the nominations closed and Gary Fox is duly elected Vice-Chair of the committee.
APPOINTMENT OF SUBCOMMITTEE
The Chair: The next order of business is that we need to strike a subcommittee on committee business.
Ms Shelley Martel (Sudbury East): 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; and that the subcommittee be composed of the following members: Mr Tascona, Ms Mushinski, Mr Morin and Mr Pouliot; and that any subcommittee member may designate a substitute member on the subcommittee who is of the same recognized party and who is a member of the committee.
The Chair: Any discussion? All those in favour? The motion is passed.
Is there any further business? If not, we'll adjourn the meeting to the next date to be scheduled.
The committee adjourned at 1535.