Finance and Government Services — Issue No. 89 — Thursday, July 18, 2019 (HTML)

Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services

Victoria

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Issue No. 89

ISSN 1499-4178

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Membership

Chair:	Bob D’Eith (Maple Ridge–Mission, NDP)
Deputy Chair:	Dan Ashton (Penticton, BC Liberal)
Members:	Doug Clovechok (Columbia River–Revelstoke, BC Liberal)
	Rich Coleman (Langley East, BC Liberal)
	Mitzi Dean (Esquimalt-Metchosin, NDP)
	Ronna-Rae Leonard (Courtenay-Comox, NDP)
	Nicholas Simons (Powell River–Sunshine Coast, NDP)
Clerk:	Susan Sourial

CONTENTS

Audit of Office of the Auditor General

Deliberations

Minutes

Thursday, July 18, 2019

9:00 a.m.

Douglas Fir Committee Room (Room 226)
Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

Present: Bob D’Eith, MLA (Chair); Dan Ashton, MLA (Deputy Chair); Rich Coleman, MLA; Mitzi Dean, MLA; Ronna-Rae Leonard, MLA; Nicholas Simons, MLA

Unavoidably Absent: Doug Clovechok, MLA

The Chair called the Committee to order at 9:00 a.m.

Resolved, that the Committee appoint the Chair and the Deputy Chair to represent the Committee and receive information regarding the audit of the Office of the Auditor General by BDO Canada. (Nicholas Simons, MLA)

Resolved, that the Committee meet in camera to deliberate on its draft report to the House. (Dan Ashton, MLA)

The Committee met in camera from 9:02 a.m. to 1:57 p.m.

The Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair at 1:57 p.m.

Bob D’Eith, MLA
Chair

Susan Sourial
Clerk Assistant — Committees and Interparliamentary Relations

THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019

The committee met at 9 a.m.

[B. D’Eith in the chair.]

Audit of
Office of the Auditor General

B. D’Eith (Chair): For the first order of business, we have a motion in regards to the audit of the Office of the Auditor General. I think Member Nicholas Simons would like to make a motion.

N. Simons: Yes. I move that the committee appoint the Chair and the Deputy Chair to represent the committee and receive information regarding the audit of the Office of the Auditor General by BDO Canada.

Motion approved.

M. Dean: I just have a question. When there is communication between the Chair and Deputy Chair and the company, will that be reported back each time to the committee?

B. D’Eith (Chair): Yes.

Deliberations

B. D’Eith (Chair): Could I get a motion to go in camera?

D. Ashton (Deputy Chair): So moved.

Motion approved.

The committee continued in camera from 9:02 a.m. to 1:57 p.m.

[B. D’Eith in the chair.]

B. D’Eith (Chair): Okay, we’re out of in camera.

Can I have a motion to adjourn?

Motion approved.

The committee adjourned at 1:57 p.m.

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