2016 Legislative Session: Fifth Session, 40th Parliament

SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT

MINUTES AND HANSARD


MINUTES

SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

8:30 a.m.

Birch Committee Room
Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

Present: Don McRae, MLA (Chair); Doug Routley, MLA (Deputy Chair); Kathy Corrigan, MLA; David Eby, MLA; Sam Sullivan, MLA; Jackie Tegart, MLA; John Yap, MLA

Unavoidably Absent: Eric Foster, MLA

1. The Chair called the Committee to order at 8:40 a.m.

2. Resolved, that the Committee meet in-camera to deliberate on its draft report to the House. (Jackie Tegart, MLA)

3. The Committee met in-camera from 8:40 a.m. to 8:55 a.m.

4. The Committee continued in public session at 8:55 a.m.

5. Resolved, that the Special Committee to Review the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act approve and adopt the Report of the Committee as amended today and further, that the Committee authorize the Chair and Deputy Chair to work with committee staff to finalize any minor editorial changes to complete the supporting text. (Jackie Tegart, MLA)

6. Resolved, that the Chair present the Committee’s Report to the Legislative Assembly at the earliest available opportunity. (Doug Routley, MLA)

7. The Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair at 8:56 a.m.

Don McRae, MLA 
Chair

Susan Sourial
Clerk Assistant
Committees and Interparliamentary Relations


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REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
(Hansard)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO
REVIEW THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT

TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2016

Issue No. 17

ISSN 1708-315X (Print)
ISSN 1708-3168 (Online)


CONTENTS

Committee Report to the House

193


Chair:

Don McRae (Comox Valley BC Liberal)

Deputy Chair:

Doug Routley (Nanaimo–North Cowichan NDP)

Members:

Kathy Corrigan (Burnaby–Deer Lake NDP)


David Eby (Vancouver–Point Grey NDP)


Eric Foster (Vernon-Monashee BC Liberal)


Sam Sullivan (Vancouver–False Creek BC Liberal)


Jackie Tegart (Fraser-Nicola BC Liberal)


John Yap (Richmond-Steveston BC Liberal)

Clerk:

Susan Sourial




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TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2016

The committee met at 8:40 a.m.

[D. McRae in the chair.]

D. McRae (Chair): Good morning. Welcome to the Special Committee to Review the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Today is Tuesday, May 3, 2016. It is 8:40 in the morning in the Birch Committee Room. I ask for a motion to go in camera.

J. Tegart: So moved.

D. McRae (Chair): Moved and seconded. We are now in camera.

The committee continued in camera from 8:40 a.m. to 8:55 a.m.

[D. McRae in the chair.]

D. McRae (Chair): We’re out of in camera, and I’m looking for some motions from members.

Committee Report to the House

J. Tegart: I move that the Special Committee to Review the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act approve and adopt the report of the committee as amended today and, further, that the committee authorize the Chair and Deputy Chair to work with the committee staff to finalize any minor editorial changes to complete the supporting text.

D. McRae (Chair): Moved by Tegart. Do we need a seconder? Seconded by Routley.

Motion approved.

D. McRae (Chair): There’s another motion on the table.

D. Routley (Deputy Chair): I move that the Chair present the committee’s report to the Legislative Assembly at the earliest available opportunity.

D. McRae (Chair): Moved by Routley, seconded by Yap.

Motion approved.

D. McRae (Chair): Excellent motion there, Deputy Chair.

I guess we now need a motion to adjourn.

The committee adjourned at 8:56 a.m.


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