2006 Legislative Session: Second Session, 38th Parliament
SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE
MINUTES AND HANSARD

MINUTES

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE

Monday, March 6, 2006
1:30 p.m.
Douglas Fir Committee Room
Parliament Buildings, Victoria

Present: Robin Austin, MLA (Convener); Scott Fraser, MLA; Gordon Hogg, MLA; Gregor Robertson, MLA; Shane Simpson, MLA; Claire Trevena, MLA

Unavoidably Absent: Ron Cantelon, MLA; Gary Coons, MLA; Daniel Jarvis, MLA; John Yap, MLA

Others Present: Brant Felker, Research Analyst

1. Resolved, that Mr. Robin Austin, MLA, be elected as the Chair of the Committee.

2. Resolved, that Mr. Ron Cantelon, MLA, be elected in absentia as the Deputy Chair of the Committee.

3. Resolved, that Mr. Robin Austin, MLA, Mr. Ron Cantelon, MLA, and Ms. Claire Trevena, MLA, comprise a Sub-committee on Agenda and Procedure.

4. The Committee reviewed a draft advertisement calling for written submissions on the matter of sustainable aquaculture.

5. Resolved, that the draft advertisement calling for written submission be approved, as amended.

6. The Committee adjourned at 1:39 p.m. to the call of the Chair.

Robin Austin, MLA 
Chair

Craig James
Clerk Assistant and
Clerk of Committees

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REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
(Hansard)

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON 
SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE

MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2006

Issue No. 4

ISSN 1718-1062

CONTENTS

Page

Election of Chair and Deputy Chair
 		  45

Election of Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure
 		 45

Submissions to Committee
 		 45

 
Chair: * Robin Austin (Skeena NDP)
Deputy Chair:    Ron Cantelon (Nanaimo-Parksville L)
Members: * Gordon Hogg (Surrey–White Rock L)
   Daniel Jarvis (North Vancouver–Seymour L)
   John Yap (Richmond-Steveston L)
   Gary Coons (North Coast NDP)
* Scott Fraser (Alberni-Qualicum NDP)
* Gregor Robertson (Vancouver-Fairview NDP)
* Shane Simpson (Vancouver-Hastings NDP)
* Claire Trevena (North Island NDP)

    * denotes member present

                                                                       

Clerk: Craig James
Committee Staff: Brant Felker (Committee Research Analyst)
 

 

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MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2006           

          The committee met at 1:34 p.m.

Election of Chair and Deputy Chair

           C. James (Clerk Assistant and Clerk of Committees): This being the first meeting of the Special Committee on Sustainable Aquaculture for the second session and there not being a Chairperson, I call for nominations for the Chair.

           G. Hogg: I nominate Robin Austin.

           C. James (Clerk of Committees): Any further nominations? Further nominations? I see no further nominations.

           I presume you accept the nomination.

           R. Austin (Convener): Yes, I do.

           C. James (Clerk of Committees): That being the case, I'll put the question on the motion.

           Motion approved.

           [R. Austin in the chair.]

           R. Austin (Chair): Thank you very much. I would like to ask for nominations for Deputy Chair.

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           S. Simpson: I nominate Ron Cantelon.

           R. Austin (Chair): Okay. Do I hear any other nominations?

           Hearing none….

           Motion approved.

           R. Austin (Chair): Okay, so Ron Cantelon is elected Deputy Chair.

Election of Subcommittee
on Agenda and Procedure

           R. Austin (Chair): Next, we'd like to elect people to the subcommittee on agenda and procedure.

           S. Simpson: I would move that the committee be the Chair, the Deputy Chair and Claire Trevena.

           Motion approved.

Submissions to Committee

           R. Austin (Chair): Next, we would like to put out a call for submissions, as we mentioned in our last session. We would like to blanket the province through the media and ask all those who have an interest in this committee to put forward their ideas to the committee. We've got a draft procedure that's coming around before you, asking that they bring that to this committee no later than July 1 of this year so that we can see and listen to everything they have to present prior to our coming up with our conclusions. I'd like you to take a look at that draft.

           Any comments?

           S. Simpson: The only comment I would make…. I'm happy with this. I would like somewhere that we just make our intent to do public meetings a little more prominent. Otherwise, people are going to read through this, see that it's written submissions, never get to the part about public meetings and assume we're not doing them. I'd just like that to be a little more prominent, that we do intend to have public meetings but that we'd like the written submissions — however the wordsmiths word it.

           R. Austin (Chair): Okay.

           G. Hogg: I would move approval-in-principle of this and that if these other people have any comments, they get back to you with that, Robin, within the next 24 hours or something — have it approved. People have not been too vocal about it yet.

           R. Austin (Chair): Is the date okay — July 1? Is that reasonable?

           Some Voices: Uh-huh.

           R. Austin (Chair): Thank you. So we shall go ahead and put that into motion.

           S. Fraser: The e-mail address. I'm assuming it's correct, but it is "aqualculture." Is that correct?

           R. Austin (Chair): I think it's just a typo there. That will be corrected.

           S. Fraser: Thank you.

           G. Robertson: A question on the rationale behind the July 1 date and whether it's worth extending that for more time.

           C. James (Clerk of Committees): It's just an arbitrary date that I chose, based on allowing the public enough time to put together their submission. It could be earlier; it could be later. If it's earlier, you could issue another call for submissions or further submissions later on, depending upon how many are received. It's fairly arbitrary at this point.

           S. Simpson: Just in regard to that, July 1. I don't think it's too bad. I'm assuming that if we were to be looking at maybe some kind of interim report in the fall or something like that, then we could always make a second call, based on whether we provide something to the Legislature in the fall in terms of an interim report,

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and then invite people to make comments on that interim report with a second round.

           G. Hogg: I'm also assuming that the committee will make decisions with respect to how this is normally circulated and that we will have adequate and appropriate circulation in all the normal and abnormal places that that might be necessary so that we can stand behind the circulation process and the information that's gone there.

           R. Austin (Chair): Okay. Is there any other business? Seeing none, a motion to adjourn?

           Thank you.

           The committee adjourned at 1:39 p.m.

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