SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
2009 Legislative Session: First Session, 39th Parliament
SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
8:00 a.m.
Douglas Fir Committee Room
Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.
Present: John Les, MLA (Chair); Doug Donaldson, MLA (Deputy Chair); Norm Letnick, MLA; Don McRae, MLA; Michelle Mungall, MLA; Bruce Ralston, MLA; Bill Routley, MLA; John Rustad, MLA; Jane Thornthwaite, MLA; John van Dongen, MLA
1. The Chair called the Committee to order at 8:13 a.m.
2. The Committee discussed its schedule of upcoming meetings and agreed to cancel November 18 and November 20.
3. Resolved, that the Committee meet in-camera to review its draft report to the House. (John Rustad, MLA)
4. The Committee held in-camera deliberations on its draft report to the House, taking recesses during the following times: 8:45 a.m. to 9:03 a.m. and from 10:05 a.m. to 10:09 a.m.
5. The Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair at 12:04 p.m.
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REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
(Hansard)
select standing committee on
Finance and Government Services
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Issue No. 13
ISSN 1499-4178
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Committee Meeting Schedule |
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Chair: |
* John Les (Chilliwack L) |
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Deputy Chair: |
* Doug Donaldson (Stikine NDP) |
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* Norm Letnick (Kelowna–Lake Country L) |
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* Don McRae (Comox Valley L) |
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* John Rustad (Nechako Lakes L) |
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* Jane Thornthwaite (North Vancouver–Seymour L) |
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* John van Dongen (Abbotsford South L) |
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* Michelle Mungall (Nelson-Creston NDP) |
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* Bruce Ralston (Surrey-Whalley NDP) |
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* Bill Routley (Cowichan Valley NDP) |
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* denotes member present |
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Clerk: |
Kate Ryan-Lloyd |
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Committee Staff: |
Josie Schofield (Manager, Committee Research Services) |
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Jonathan Fershau (Committee Research Analyst) |
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009
The committee met at 8:13 a.m.
[J. Les in the chair.]
J. Les (Chair): Good morning, everyone. We've got a fair bit of work to do today, but maybe, if you don't mind, I would like to get one little preliminary thing out of the way.
Committee Meeting Schedule
J. Les (Chair): I've been working with Craig James in terms of the schedule dealing with the interviews with the statutory officers. There was a meeting proposed for Wednesday, November 18. That's been cancelled. Apparently, none of them could make that date, so there will be no meeting at that time.
The schedule, as it stands now, is for the morning of Friday, November 20; Wednesday, November 25; and Friday, November 27, for the morning. So that's two Fridays and one Wednesday.
I talked to Craig yesterday, and for the morning of Friday, November 20, there are only two that are scheduled: John Doyle, the Auditor General; and Joy Illington, the Merit Commissioner. Craig felt it would be relatively easy to move John Doyle to Friday, November 27, and it shouldn't be very difficult to schedule Joy Illington at some other time. We can deal with her fairly quickly.
If you're all agreeable, then I'll talk to Craig and compress it down to a morning meeting on November 25 — that's the Wednesday — and Friday, November 27, which is the day after the end of session. That will save us staying here for Friday, November 20.
B. Ralston: But we won't start at eight o'clock for that one.
J. Les (Chair): How about nine o'clock? So is everybody okay with that? I think we can make that work, and I'll ask Craig to work Joy Illington in. We may do that while the House is in session, so there might be one or two of us who may not be able to make that meeting. But again, I don't think that's critical.
It'll be Joy Illington's swan song. She's on her way out, I think. This week sometime is her last day at work.
J. Rustad: She's retiring for the second time.
J. van Dongen: There'll be nothing on the 18th and nothing on the 20th, the way you've got it.
J. Les (Chair): That's correct.
J. van Dongen: Yeah, okay.
J. Les (Chair): Okay, so you've all just had some room opened up on your schedules to do with as you please.
J. Rustad: A motion to go in camera.
Motion approved.
The committee continued in camera from 8:16 a.m. to 12:03 p.m.
[J. Les in the chair.]
J. Les (Chair): Motion to adjourn?
Motion approved.
The committee adjourned at 12:04 p.m.
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