SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
Monday, November 20, 2006
3:00 p.m.
Douglas Fir Committee Room
Parliament Buildings, Victoria
2006 Legislative Session: Second Session, 38th Parliament
SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
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SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
Monday, November 20, 2006 |
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Present: Ralph Sultan, MLA (Chair); David Cubberley, MLA (Deputy Chair); Katrine Conroy, MLA; Dave S. Hayer, MLA; Daniel Jarvis, MLA; John Nuraney, MLA; Valerie Roddick, MLA; Michael Sather, MLA; Katherine Whittred, MLA; Charlie Wyse, MLA
1. The Chair called the Committee to order at 3:16 p.m.
2. Resolved, that the Committee meet in-camera to review its draft report to the House. (Dave S. Hayer, MLA)
3. The Committee met in-camera from 3:20 p.m. to 5:44 p.m.
4. The Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair at 5:47 p.m.
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Kate Ryan-Lloyd |
The following electronic version is for informational purposes only.
The printed version remains the official version.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2006
Issue No. 17
ISSN 1499-4232
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| Draft Committee Report | 281 | |
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| Chair: | * Ralph Sultan (West Vancouver–Capilano L) |
| Deputy Chair: | * David Cubberley (Saanich South NDP) |
| Members: | * Dave S. Hayer (Surrey-Tynehead L) * Daniel Jarvis (North Vancouver–Seymour L) * John Nuraney (Burnaby-Willingdon L) * Valerie Roddick (Delta South L) * Katherine Whittred (North Vancouver–Lonsdale L) * Katrine Conroy (West Kootenay–Boundary NDP) * Michael Sather (Maple Ridge–Pitt Meadows NDP) * Charlie Wyse (Cariboo South NDP) * denotes member present |
| Clerk: | Kate Ryan-Lloyd |
| Committee Staff: | Jonathan Fershau (Committee Research Analyst) Carla Shore (Committee Consultant) |
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2006
The committee met at 3:16 p.m.
[R. Sultan in the chair.]
Draft Committee Report
R. Sultan (Chair): This is the Select Standing Committee on Health of the British Columbia Legislature continuing its work on the charge from the Legislature to examine childhood obesity.
One element of our project, of course, has been this poster contest, and I must say that I personally am just delighted by some of the entries. Before we get into the work of considering the draft report itself in camera, I wonder if the Clerk would give us an update on the poster contest and get your opinion and judgment on certain matters. So I'll turn it over to the Clerk.
K. Ryan-Lloyd (Clerk Assistant and Committee Clerk): Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone.
With Carla's help we have reviewed approximately 325 entries for your drawing contest, and we have made a recommendation this afternoon that the three drawings I'm about to circulate be the finalists for the report cover. Because we felt it was helpful to have your input on this important decision, what I'd like to propose this afternoon is that as we begin deliberations on your draft report I simply circulate these three colour photocopies. If you could write your name on the back of the one which you would like to see on your report cover, then we will make a decision based on a democratic vote of support for your favourite entry.
In addition to these, we will also have selected on your behalf finalists in each of the age categories — kindergarten right through to grade 7. There are some excellent submissions that have provided us with a lot of enthusiasm for the topic and a lot of new insights. We'd like to use as many of them, as well, within the text of the report to illustrate the different themes that you're putting forward.
This afternoon, if we could have your assistance in selecting a winner out of these top three, that would be very helpful.
R. Sultan (Chair): Mr. Nuraney, are you there?
J. Nuraney: Yes.
R. Sultan (Chair): John, we just announced that we have some finalists for the poster contest, and the Clerk is going to circulate them among the committee to get their judgment on which should be the final winner. We wanted to emphasize on the record that this is a judgment in which the entire select standing committee would participate. Unfortunately, we have no way of transmitting them to you.
J. Nuraney: Are you deciding on that today?
K. Ryan-Lloyd (Committee Clerk): I can e-mail them to you, John. If you have a moment in the next few hours, I will have somebody e-mail you a scanned PDF of the top three finalists. Would you have time for that this afternoon?
J. Nuraney: Sure. Yeah, I'm here.
R. Sultan (Chair): With that preamble, then, I am pleased with the progress we've been making in preparing our draft report and recommendations to the Legislature, although clearly we still have some miles to go before we sleep, I guess, as Robert Frost said.
I would entertain a motion to go in camera.
D. Hayer: I move the motion to go in camera.
Motion approved.
The committee continued in camera from 3:20 p.m. to 5:44 p.m.
R. Sultan (Chair): We are back in public session. We have reviewed in great detail the current working draft of the report. We've agreed that some further redrafting and some fine-tuning of the recommendations are in order, and we shall meet again on Thursday to adopt the final text.
Do I have that approximately correct, Clerk?
K. Ryan-Lloyd (Committee Clerk): Yes. I understand that the committee's last scheduled meeting is coming up on Thursday morning. In preparation for that, I know that Jonathan will be working very hard to incorporate all of the suggestions and input we received today, and we'll get a draft to you all as soon as we can.
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As the Chair mentioned earlier, we would welcome any advice or input that you might have over the next couple of days. Don't hesitate to e-mail us. Or if you've made a note of any typos or other small corrections that need to be taken care of, just give us a copy of your report at the end of this meeting, or send them to us by e-mail. That would be very helpful.
R. Sultan (Chair): Insofar as the poster or drawing contest is concerned, does the Clerk have sufficient feedback from the committee to guide the final selections, recognizing that we're not prepared to announce them at this time?
K. Ryan-Lloyd (Committee Clerk): Yes. A winner has been selected today, and I thank everybody for their input.
R. Sultan (Chair): I take it, also, that the Clerk is working with our talented people at the Queen's Printer to get the production aspect straightened out.
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K. Ryan-Lloyd (Committee Clerk): Yes. The publishing will be handled essentially in our office, and the printing may be…. The Queen's Printer may take care of that detail, or we may use the copy shop here at the assembly, but it looks like we have matters well in hand over the weekend to produce your report in time for the scheduled release on Tuesday.
R. Sultan (Chair): So it's a week this coming Tuesday that we release the report. Well, I think we have come to the moment of truth.
K. Ryan-Lloyd (Committee Clerk): November 28 at 11 a.m. That's the current scheduled target time for your release.
R. Sultan (Chair): With that very rapidly approaching release date in mind, I would urge the committee to get in any further substantive changes they really want for consideration, say, within the next 24 hours or so, because time is now rapidly slipping away. I think the report is shaping up very well. I think we have covered an immense amount of ground, and I'm really looking forward to the final product.
With that, I will entertain a motion to adjourn.
D. Hayer: I move that we adjourn.
Motion approved.
The committee adjourned at 5:47 p.m.
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