SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Monday, November 14, 2005
8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Douglas Fir Committee Room
Parliament Buildings, Victoria
2005 Legislative Session: First Session, 38th Parliament
SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
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SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
Monday, November 14, 2005 |
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Present: Blair Lekstrom, MLA (Chair); Maurine Karagianis, MLA (Deputy
Chair); Harry Bloy, MLA; Dave S. Hayer, MLA; Gordon Hogg, MLA; Leonard Krog,
MLA; Jenny Wai Ching Kwan, MLA; Richard T. Lee, MLA; Nicholas Simons, MLA; John
Yap, MLA
1. The Chair called the Committee to order at 8:05 a.m.
2. Resolved, that the Committee met in-camera to discuss its confidential
draft report. (John Yap, MLA)
3. The Committee met in-camera from 8:05 a.m. to 9 a.m.
4. Resolved, that the Committee approve and adopt the Budget Consultation
report, as revised earlier this morning. (Maurine Karagianis, MLA)
5. Resolved, that the Chair present the report to the House at the
earliest possible opportunity. (Maurine Karagianis, MLA)
6. Resolved, that the Committee do now adjourn. (Leonard Krog, MLA)
7. The Committee adjourned at 9:03 a.m.
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Blair Lekstrom, MLA Chair |
Kate Ryan-Lloyd |
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2005
Issue No. 15
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| Chair: | * Blair Lekstrom (Peace River South L) |
| Deputy Chair: | * Maurine Karagianis (Esquimalt-Metchosin NDP) |
| Members: | * Harry Bloy (Burquitlam L) * Dave S. Hayer (Surrey-Tynehead L) * Gordon Hogg (Surrey–White Rock L) * Richard T. Lee (Burnaby North L) * John Yap (Richmond-Steveston L) * Leonard Krog (Nanaimo NDP) * Jenny Wai Ching Kwan (Vancouver–Mount Pleasant NDP) * Nicholas Simons (Powell River–Sunshine Coast NDP) * denotes member present |
| Clerk: | Kate Ryan-Lloyd |
| Committee Staff: | Jonathan Fershau (Committee Research Analyst) |
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2005
The committee met at 8:05 a.m.
[B. Lekstrom in the chair.]
B. Lekstrom (Chair): Good morning, everyone. I would like to call the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services to order. We are here this morning to finalize our report, which we will present to the Legislative Assembly tomorrow afternoon, the 15th. That is our statutory deadline to present this report.
At this time I would like to entertain a motion to go in camera to discuss the body of the report.
Motion approved.
The committee met in camera from 8:05 a.m. to 9 a.m.
B. Lekstrom (Chair): We will now move back into the public portion of the meeting at this time.
M. Karagianis (Deputy Chair): If I may, Chair, I would move that the committee approve and adopt the budget consultation report, subject to the revisions agreed to this morning.
B. Lekstrom (Chair): Seeing no discussion on the motion, I will call the question.
Motion approved.
B. Lekstrom (Chair): It is carried unanimously.
Okay. We do have a second motion.
M. Karagianis (Deputy Chair): I do have a second motion as well. I move that the Chair present the report to the House at the earliest possible opportunity.
Motion approved.
B. Lekstrom (Chair): It is now quickly approaching 9 a.m. I want to thank the committee members for their hard work on this. I think the Legislative Assembly will be very pleased with the report that we put forward, as well as all British Columbians. I think it very closely reflects everything we heard.
As much as we have tried to encapsulate everything…. It's very difficult, but we have taken the broadest context of the ideas that we heard and tried to put those forward in the recommendations. I look forward to presenting this to the Legislative Assembly tomorrow afternoon.
H. Bloy: On behalf of my colleagues, I would like to thank the Chair and the Deputy Chair for all the extra work they put in to bring it to this point.
Some Voices: Hear, hear.
B. Lekstrom (Chair): Thank you.
L. Krog: Likewise, the obvious thank-you to all those who have worked with the committee, particularly those who've had to struggle with the many revisions that the committee has suggested in its careful deliberations on this matter.
B. Lekstrom (Chair): With that, what we will do as a committee is that I will have, in conjunction with Maurine, a schedule for the statutory officers put out as quickly as possible that can accommodate our meeting schedules, as individual members of this committee, and we will move forward with the next phase of our committee work.
With that, a motion to adjourn would be in order.
The committee adjourned at 9:03 a.m.
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