STANDING COMMITTEE
ON THE INTERIOR
COMITÉ PERMANENT
DES AFFAIRES INTÉRIEURES
Wednesday 22 January 2025 Mercredi 22 janvier 2025
The committee met at 1200 in committee room 2.
Committee business
The Chair (Mr. Aris Babikian): Good afternoon. The Standing Committee on the Interior will now come to order. We are joined by staff from legislative research, Hansard, and broadcast and recording.
Please wait until I recognize you before starting to speak. As always, all comments should go through the Chair.
Are there any questions before we begin?
Mr. Peter Tabuns: Do we have any documents?
The Chair (Mr. Aris Babikian): No.
Mr. Peter Tabuns: Okay.
The Chair (Mr. Aris Babikian): On today’s agenda is committee business. Are there any motions? MPP Yakabuski.
Mr. John Yakabuski: I have two motions.
First motion: I move that the committee enter closed session for the purposes of organizing committee business.
The Chair (Mr. Aris Babikian): Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favour, please raise your hand. Any opposition? The motion is carried.
We have to take a few seconds of break until we set up the closed session.
The committee recessed at 1201 and later continued in closed session.
STANDING COMMITTEE ON THE INTERIOR
Chair / Président
Mr. Aris Babikian (Scarborough–Agincourt PC)
Vice-Chair / Vice-Président
Mr. Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk–James Bay / Mushkegowuk–Baie James ND)
Mr. Aris Babikian (Scarborough–Agincourt PC)
Mr. Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk–James Bay / Mushkegowuk–Baie James ND)
Mr. Rudy Cuzzetto (Mississauga–Lakeshore PC)
Mr. Andrew Dowie (Windsor–Tecumseh PC)
Mme Dawn Gallagher Murphy (Newmarket–Aurora PC)
Mr. John Jordan (Lanark–Frontenac–Kingston PC)
Mrs. Karen McCrimmon (Kanata–Carleton L)
Mr. Steve Pinsonneault (Lambton–Kent–Middlesex PC)
Ms. Sandy Shaw (Hamilton West–Ancaster–Dundas / Hamilton-Ouest–Ancaster–Dundas ND)
Mr. John Yakabuski (Renfrew–Nipissing–Pembroke PC)
Substitutions / Membres remplaçants
Mr. Stéphane Sarrazin (Glengarry–Prescott–Russell PC)
Mr. Peter Tabuns (Toronto–Danforth ND)
Clerk pro tem / Greffier par intérim
Mr. Isaiah Thorning
Staff / Personnel
Ms. Amanda Boyce, research officer,
Research Services