Proceedings of the Committee of Selection
Issue 1 - Evidence
Ottawa, Wednesday, February 28, 1996
[English]
The Senate Committee of Selection met this day, at 9:00 a.m., for the purpose of choosing a Chairman (pursuant to Rules 89 and 86(1) of the Rules of the Senate), for the nomination of a senator to preside as Speaker pro tempore and for the nomination of senators to serve on several select committees during the present session.
Dr. Gary O'Brien, Clerk of the Committee: Honourable senators, I see a quorum. As clerk of your committee, it is my duty to preside over the election of a chairman. Are there any nominations for position of chairman?
Senator Kinsella: I move that Senator Hébert be chairman.
Mr. O'Brien: It is moved by the Honourable Senator Kinsella that Senator Hébert do take the chair. Is it your pleasure, honourable senators, to adopt the motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
Mr. O'Brien: I declare the motion carried. I ask Senator Hébert to take the chair.
Senator Jacques Hébert (Chairman) in the Chair.
The Chairman: We all have an agenda. Thank you very much for your confidence. The first item on the agenda, the election of chairman, is already done, as is the second item. I have taken the chair.
The next item is to nominate a Speaker pro tempore. The meeting is open for nominations.
Senator Kinsella: I move that Senator Ottenheimer be Speaker pro tempore.
Senator Corbin: Would you not rather have someone from this side move that?
Senator Olson: I will do that, if you like.
The Chairman: Is it unanimous?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. Thank you. I need a motion to report the nomination of the Speaker pro tempore to the Senate. It must be moved by the honourable senators that the chairman report to the Senate the nomination agreed to at this day's meeting. Who will move that?
Senator Corbin: I so move.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt the motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. Item number 5, "Nominations of Senators to serve on the Committee on Privileges, Standing Rules and Orders".
Senator Petten: I nominate the following senators for the Standing Committee on Privileges, Standing Rules and Orders: The Honourable Senators Gauthier, Robichaud, Lewis, Maheu, Petten, Rompkey, Milne, Bosa, and Grafstein.
Senator Kinsella: Mr. Chairman, I move that Senators Robertson, Doyle, Rossiter, Grimard, Ottenheimer, and Murray be members of the Committee on Privileges, Standing Rules and Orders.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt the motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Unanimous. We now go to item number 6, which is the Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration. I would ask Senator Kinsella for his list of nominations.
Senator Kinsella: I nominate Senators Di Nino, Cochrane, Forrestall, Lebreton, Nolin, and Cohen.
The Chairman: Are there any other nominations?
Senator Petten: I nominate Senators Davey, Poulin, Petten, Gauthier, Stollery, Kenny, Wood, Milne, and De Bané.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt the motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. Item number 7, nominations to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs. Senator Petten?
Senator Petten: I nominate the following senators to be named to the Foreign Affairs Committee: Senators Stewart, MacEachen, Grafstein, Stollery, Corbin, Gauthier, and Bacon.
Senator Kinsella: I nominate Senators Carney, Andreychuk, Bolduc, Doody, and Ottenheimer.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt this motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. Number 8, the Senate Committee on National Finance. Senator Kinsella?
Senator Kinsella: I move that the members serving on the National Finance Committee include Senators Tkachuk, Bolduc, Eyton, Kelly, and Stratton.
Senator Petten: I nominate for the National Finance Committee the following senators: De Bané, Rizzuto, Cools, Pearson, Maheu, Poulin, and Losier-Cool.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt this motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. Then we are at number 9, the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications. May I hear your nominations, Senator Petten?
Senator Petten: I nominate the following senators, Mr. Chairman: Bacon, Petten, Davey, Adams, Roux, Perrault, and Poulin.
Senator Kinsella: And our nominations are Senators Forrestall, Roberge, Johnson, Oliver, and Atkins.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt this motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. Then we are at item number 10, the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs.
Senator Olson: Mr. Chairman, just one procedural thing. I know, of course, that Senators Lynch-Staunton and Fairbairn are both ex officio members of these committees but should they not be included in the motion, to make it proper? Perhaps it is just a formality.
The Chairman: I am told by the clerk that they will be included in the report.
Senator Olson: All right.
Senator Corbin: It is provided in the rules.
The Chairman: It is provided in the rules and their names will be in the report. Where were we? Nominations for the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee.
Senator Kinsella: We would nominate for the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Senators Nolin, Beaudoin, Doyle, Jessiman, and Ghitter.
Senator Petten: We nominate the following senators for the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee: Carstairs, Lewis, Pearson, Bryden, Losier-Cool, Gigantès, and Corbin.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt this motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. Then we are at number 11, Banking Trade and Commerce.
Senator Petten: I nominate the following senators to serve on the Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce: Senators Kirby, Kolber, Austin, Perrault, Stewart, Kenny, and Hervieux-Payette.
Senator Kinsella: We nominate Senators Angus, Kelleher, Meighen, Simard, and St. Germain.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt the motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. We are now at number 12, Social Affairs, Science and Technology.
Senator Kinsella: We move that the following senators serve on the Social Affairs, Science and Technology Committee: Senators DeWare, Keon, Lavoie-Roux, Phillips, and Cohen.
Senator Petten: Mr. Chairman, our nominations for the Social Affairs, Science and Technology Committee are as follows: Senators Bonnell, Haidasz, Cools, Bosa, Gigantès, Losier-Cool, and Rompkey.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt this motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. In which case we move to item 13, Agriculture and Forestry.
Senator Petten: We nominate the following senators to serve on that committee: The Honourable Senators Olson, Carstairs, Riel, Hays, Sparrow, Anderson, and Landry.
Senator Kinsella: I nominate Senators Gustafson, Rossiter, Spivak, St. Germain, and Charbonneau.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt this motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. We now go to item number 14, Fisheries.
Senator Kinsella: We move that members of the Fisheries Committee include Senators Comeau, Doody, Jessiman, Robertson, and Rossiter.
Senator Petten: In addition, I nominate the following senators: Losier-Cool, Petten, Stewart, De Bané, Marchand, Landry, and Perrault.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt this motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. Item number 15 is Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources.
Senator Petten: We nominate the following senators to serve on the Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee: Hays, Adams, Kenny, Marchand, Bacon, Kirby, and Rompkey.
Senator Kinsella: We nominate Senators Ghitter, Carney, Cochrane, Buchanan, and Spivak.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt this motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. The next item, number 16, is Aboriginal Peoples.
Senator Kinsella: I move that the members serving on the Committee on Aboriginal Peoples include Senators Andreychuk, Beaudoin, Rivest, Tkachuk, and Twinn.
Senator Petten: In addition, I nominate the following senators: Marchand, Watt, Anderson, Pearson, Milne, Roux, and Carstairs.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt this motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. By the way, we did not think there was any rush to have the nominations for the joint committees. It may be more interesting to see what they will do on the other side before we consider our nominations.
Senator Kinsella: Is Scrutiny not one of them?
The Chairman: Yes. There are also the committees on Official Languages, the Library, and so on.
Senator Corbin: We usually get a message from them inviting us to join them, and we do not do anything until we get that.
The Chairman: On your agenda, item number 17 is reporting the nominations to the Senate. It must be moved by an honourable senator that the chairman report to the Senate the nominations agreed to at this day's meeting.
Senator Olson: I so move.
The Chairman: Is it your pleasure to adopt the motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. Number 18 is the motion to print the committee's proceedings. It is suggested that we print 200 copies - why not 2,000 since it is so important - for distribution to senators, MPs, officials and others.
Senator Berntson: I so move.
The Chairman: Is it you pleasure to adopt the motion?
Hon. Senators: Agreed.
The Chairman: Carried. Do we have other matters to discuss? If we do not, I will accept a motion to adjourn.
Senator Petten: I so move.
The committee adjourned.