CONTENTS

Wednesday 6 May 1998

Election of Chair

Election of Vice-Chair

Appointment of subcommittee

STANDING COMMITTEE ON ESTIMATES

CHAIR / PRÉSIDENT

MR GERARD KENNEDY (YORK SOUTH / -SUD L)

VICE-CHAIR / VICE-PRÉSIDENT

MR RICK BARTOLUCCI (SUDBURY L)

MR RICK BARTOLUCCI (SUDBURY L)

MR GILLES BISSON (COCHRANE SOUTH / -SUD ND)

MR JOHN C. CLEARY (CORNWALL L)

MR ED DOYLE (WENTWORTH EAST / -EST PC)

MR GERARD KENNEDY (YORK SOUTH / -SUD L)

MR JOHN L. PARKER (YORK EAST / -EST PC)

MR TREVOR PETTIT (HAMILTON MOUNTAIN PC)

MR WAYNE WETTLAUFER (KITCHENER PC)

MR TERENCE H. YOUNG (HALTON CENTRE / -CENTRE PC)

CLERK / GREFFIER

MR VIKTOR KACZKOWSKI

STAFF / PERSONNEL

MS ANNE MARZALIK, RESEARCH OFFICER, LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH SERVICE

The committee met at 1530 in committee room 2.

ELECTION OF CHAIR

Clerk of the Committee (Mr Viktor Kaczkowski): Honourable members, it is my duty to call upon you to elect a Chair. Are there any nominations?

Mr Rick Bartolucci (Sudbury): I move Gerard Kennedy.

Clerk of the Committee: Are there any further nominations?

Mr Terence H. Young (Halton Centre): Will he be making an acceptance speech?

Clerk of the Committee: That may be up to him to decide.

Mr Gerard Kennedy (York South): "Dispense" works here too.

Clerk of the Committee: There being no further nominations, I declare the nominations closed and that Mr Kennedy be elected Chair.

Mr Wayne Wettlaufer (Kitchener): Chair, I have a question.

The Chair (Mr Gerard Kennedy): The Chair is happy to recognize the member for Kitchener.

Mr Wettlaufer: Does that mean you will be attending committee meetings this term?

The Chair: I believe it does, yes.

Mr Wettlaufer: Good to hear it.

The Chair: And I look forward, as always, to the pleasant company and to the effective work that we're going to get done here this term.

Mr Wettlaufer: We look forward to seeing you more than we did in the last session.

The Chair: Thank you for that; I appreciate it. That will be one of the things I'm looking forward to in this term.

ELECTION OF VICE-CHAIR

The Chair: Members, it is our duty to elect a Vice-Chair. Are there any nominations?

Mr John C. Cleary (Cornwall): I nominate Mr Bartolucci.

The Chair: Mr Cleary nominates Mr Bartolucci. Any other nominations? There being no further nominations, I declare the nominations closed and that Mr Bartolucci has been elected to the position of Vice-Chair.

APPOINTMENT OF SUBCOMMITTEE

The Chair: I'm looking for a mover for the motion to appoint a business subcommittee.

Mr Trevor Pettit (Hamilton Mountain): I'll move that.

The Chair: Mr Pettit for the business subcommittee. Maybe I can pass you this motion.

Mr Pettit: To read?

The Chair: Yes. We'll do that in a formal format.

Mr Pettit: 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 Kennedy (Chair), Mr Young, Mr Cleary and Mr Bisson; and that any member may designate a substitute member on the subcommittee who is of the same recognized party.

The Chair: We have the motion. All those in favour? I declare the motion carried.

I'd just like to welcome people to the next term of estimates business and I look forward to what I think was a productive term last time. I look forward to seeing Mr Wettlaufer both here and in his riding quite often in the next little while.

Mr Wettlaufer: You will.

Mr Pettit: Mr Chair, if I might, I just wondered if the Vice-Chair would like to make an acceptance speech or anything.

Mr Bartolucci: Well, Trevor, let me say only one thing. I'd like to welcome the new people we have on staff this year, and I look forward to working closely with them.

The Chair: Maybe if these are the regular staff, we could ask for introductions and be familiar from this point forward. Would you like to commence?

Clerk of the Committee: My name is Viktor Kaczkowski and I am the clerk of this committee and also the clerk of regulations and private bills.

Ms Anne Marzalik: Anne Marzalik, legislative research.

Mrs Carolyn Brown: Carolyn Brown, Hansard.

The Chair: Thank you very much. We look forward to our first meeting.

The committee adjourned at 1537.