2011 Legislative Session: Third Session, 39th Parliament

SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH

MINUTES AND HANSARD

MINUTES SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Thursday, June 2, 2011

2:50 p.m.

Birch Committee Room

Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

Present: Joan McIntyre, MLA (Chair); Claire Trevena, MLA (Deputy Chair); Mable Elmore, MLA; Kash Heed, MLA; Gordon Hogg, MLA; Leonard Krog, MLA; Kevin Krueger, MLA; Richard T. Lee, MLA; Nicholas Simons, MLA

Unavoidably Absent: Douglas Horne, MLA

1. There not yet being a Chair elected to serve the Committee, the meeting was called to order at 2:53 p.m. by the Clerk Assistant and Acting Clerk of Committees.

2. Resolved, that Joan McIntyre, MLA be elected Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth. (Leonard Krog, MLA)

3. Resolved, that Claire Trevena, MLA be elected Deputy Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth. (Kash Heed, MLA)

4. Resolved, that the Sub-committee on Agenda and Procedure and the Sub-committee on Critical Injury and Child Death Referrals be comprised of the Chair and Deputy Chair. (Gordon Hogg, MLA)

5. The Committee discussed its Terms of Reference and potential meeting schedule for the upcoming months.

6. The Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair at 2:59 p.m.

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REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
(Hansard)

select standing committee on
children and youth

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Issue No. 10

ISSN 1911-1940

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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2011

The committee met at 2:53 p.m.

Election of Chair and Deputy Chair

K. Ryan-Lloyd (Clerk Assistant and Acting Clerk of Committees): Good afternoon, Members. Welcome to the first meeting of the Select Standing Committee on Children and Youth for the third session of the 39th Parliament.

As there has not yet been a meeting of the committee in this session, there is not yet a Chair elected to serve the committee. I would like to open the floor to nominations for that position.

L. Krog: I would be delighted to nominate Joan McIntyre to be Chair of this committee.

K. Ryan-Lloyd (Acting Clerk of Committees): Thank you. So noted.

Are there any further nominations? Any further nominations? Any further nominations? Seeing none, Ms. McIntyre, would you accept the nomination?

J. McIntyre: I'd be delighted to. Thank you. It's a privilege to continue to serve.

K. Ryan-Lloyd (Acting Clerk of Committees): Okay. Thank you.

I will put the question on the motion.

Motion approved.

[J. McIntyre in the chair.]

J. McIntyre (Chair): As I said, it is indeed a pleasure to serve and to continue serving this committee.

So on our very brief agenda here, the next item is the election of the Deputy Chair. I'm looking for nominations.

K. Heed: It would be my pleasure to nominate Claire Trevena to be Deputy Chair of this fine committee.

J. McIntyre (Chair): Any other nominations? Hearing none, I'd like to call the question.

Motion approved.

J. McIntyre (Chair): I'd like to go to agenda item 3, which is the appointment of the subcommittee on agenda and procedure and the subcommittee on critical injury and child death referrals.

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Establishment of Subcommittees

J. McIntyre (Chair): I'm recommending in the spirit of the last committee where the Deputy Chair and I served as that subcommittee. We seem to think that it worked very well.

I've spoken with Claire briefly, so with the consent of the committee I'd like a motion to appoint the Chair and Deputy Chair as the subcommittee for this committee.

G. Hogg: So moved.

Motion approved.

Committee Terms of Reference
and Meeting Schedule

J. McIntyre (Chair): Any other business?

Maybe I'll just say, then, under that category, now that we are official and up and running, I think Claire and I will tend to be able to meet each other at minimum by phone and plot out an agenda and how we want to go forward.

I'm pretty confident that the rep will be waiting with bated breath, probably, to report, or at least to give an update to the committee. So we'll work with speed to set up our first meeting.

Maybe I should just check. Is it better in Victoria to do that pretty well, I think?

Interjections.

J. McIntyre (Chair): Yes.

So with that, just in the committee's approval, Claire and I will move forward in setting up an agenda and setting up a meeting time.

N. Simons: I'm just wondering: can I be reminded when the representative's term expires and what the selection process is for the selection of a possible replacement?

J. McIntyre (Chair): Yes, I'm happy to respond to that. I think it's been determined. There was a little bit of back and forth because her powers were sort of let out over time. But I think it's been determined that it was the end of November when the official OIC went in to start, and she started to assume some duties. So her five years would be up in November.

I think today you'll notice that the special committee for the search to appoint a new person in that position or reappoint the current — she is eligible for one more term — has been struck. Actually, your Deputy Chair is part of that committee. I think Mable might be too. I can't remember all the members.

N. Simons: Mable, Claire and Maurine, yeah.

J. McIntyre (Chair): And Maurine, yes, the former Deputy Chair. Unfortunately, I'm not on that committee so I will defer to that committee to do the good work. There will be some overlap and continuity.
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R. Lee: Are there any plans for the meetings over the summer?

J. McIntyre (Chair): I guess that will be for Claire and me to sort out. Not August, I don't think, and I'm actually away in part of July. My thought — although Claire and I haven't had a chance — is that we at least want one in June. Maybe we'll make it a fairly full meeting because we won't be in session. So it won't be just like a little hour or two, and we can maybe get through some business.

C. Trevena (Deputy Chair): Yes, I'm looking forward to working with Joan. Thank you for the nomination and election.

Bearing in mind everybody's commitments through the summer and wanting to have a holiday and uncertainty about what's going to happen later on in the summer, Joan and I will sit down and try and work out to have a meeting as soon as possible. I think if we can work it in Victoria, if that suits everybody on the committee, that's the easiest really.

J. McIntyre (Chair): Is that all right? Any other business?

L. Krog: Adjournment.

J. McIntyre (Chair): Yes. Thank you very much.

The committee adjourned at 2:59 p.m.

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