SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
2011 Legislative Session: Fourth Session, 39th Parliament
SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
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Monday, October 17, 2011
12 p.m.
Douglas Fir Committee Room
Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.
Present: Norm Letnick, MLA (Chair); Mike Farnworth, MLA (Deputy Chair); Katrine Conroy, MLA; Guy Gentner, MLA; Sue Hammell, MLA; Colin Hansen, MLA; Dave S. Hayer, MLA; Richard T. Lee, MLA; Dr. Moira Stilwell, MLA
Unavoidably Absent: Bill Bennett, MLA; Ron Cantelon, MLA
1. There not yet being a Chair elected to serve the Committee, the meeting was called to order at 12:02 p.m. by the Committee Clerk.
2. Resolved, that Norm Letnick, MLA be elected Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Health. (Mike Farnworth, MLA)
3. Resolved, that Mike Farnworth, MLA be elected Deputy Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Health. (Dave S. Hayer, MLA)
4. Resolved, that a steering committee comprised of the Chair, the Deputy Chair and Colin Hansen, MLA undertake preliminary work with respect to item 1 of the terms of reference.
5. The Committee received an update on the work of the Sub-committee.
6. The Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair at 12:06 p.m.
The following electronic version is for informational purposes only.
The printed version remains the official version.
REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS
(Hansard)
select standing committee on
Health
Monday, October 17, 2011
Issue No. 2
ISSN 1499-4232
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Election of Chair and Deputy Chair |
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Subcommittee Membership |
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Other Business |
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Chair: |
* Norm Letnick (Kelowna–Lake Country L) |
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Deputy Chair: |
* Mike Farnworth (Port Coquitlam NDP) |
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Members: |
Bill Bennett (Kootenay East L) |
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Ron Cantelon (Parksville-Qualicum L) |
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* Colin Hansen (Vancouver-Quilchena L) |
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* Dave S. Hayer (Surrey-Tynehead L) |
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* Richard T. Lee (Burnaby North L) |
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* Dr. Moira Stilwell (Vancouver-Langara L) |
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* Katrine Conroy (Kootenay West NDP) |
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* Guy Gentner (Delta North NDP) |
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* Sue Hammell (Surrey–Green Timbers NDP) |
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* denotes member present |
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Clerk: |
Susan Sourial |
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2011
The committee met at 12:02 p.m.
Election of Chair and Deputy Chair
S. Sourial (Committee Clerk): Good morning, Members. As this is the first meeting of the Select Standing Committee on Health for this session, our first order of business is to elect a Chair to serve the committee.
Are there any nominations?
M. Farnworth: I nominate Norm Letnick.
S. Sourial (Committee Clerk): Mr. Farnworth has nominated Norm Letnick.
Do you accept?
N. Letnick: Déjà vu. Yes.
S. Sourial (Committee Clerk): Any further nominations? Any further nominations? For a third time, any further nominations?
Seeing none, I'll put the question.
Motion approved.
[N. Letnick in the chair.]
N. Letnick (Chair): Thank you, Susan. I appreciate that.
At this point I will invite nominations for Deputy Chair.
D. Hayer: I'll nominate Mike Farnworth.
N. Letnick (Chair): Mike, will you stand for the position?
M. Farnworth: Sure, yes.
N. Letnick (Chair): Any other nominations? Any other nominations? Any other nominations?
Hearing none, I put the question to the committee.
Motion approved.
Subcommittee Membership
N. Letnick (Chair): Appointment of subcommittee. I will describe what the subcommittee has done under "Other business," just to bring everybody up to speed — briefly, because I know you have another meeting to go to.
I've asked Colin Hansen to replace Margaret MacDiarmid on the subcommittee. Colin, after some arm-twisting, has agreed. If that's okay with you, I'd like to recommend that the Chair, the Deputy Chair and Colin sit on the subcommittee.
Any discussion on that? Does someone want to make a motion? So moved by Moira, seconded by Mike.
Colin, you've just been moved and seconded to the subcommittee.
C. Hansen: Aye.
N. Letnick (Chair): I thought I'd get away with that before you showed up. No, Colin is aware.
Anyone else want to replace me or Mike or Colin on the committee? Seeing none, I'll call the question on the subcommittee structure.
Motion approved.
Other Business
N. Letnick (Chair): On any other business, just to give you a brief update, what happened over the summer is Mike and I and Margaret met with KPMG, the Michael Smith Foundation, the UBC Centre for Population Health Promotion Research and Ministry of Health representatives to work on what this committee tasked us with, which is to come back to this committee with a recommendation on process regarding item 1 in our mandate.
Since that meeting I've been working with KPMG and the Clerk's office to fashion a proposal by KPMG that would be acceptable or near acceptable to present back to the subcommittee, and we are going to be doing that tomorrow. So the subcommittee will be meeting tomorrow to go through KPMG's proposal. Then we have a meeting scheduled for Thursday at 8:30, with breakfast, here for the whole committee to then go through the subcommittee's recommendation to the whole committee. At that point we can discuss what has been proposed.
That basically gives you a birds-eye view of where we're at. A lot of work has happened over the summer, and we should see the culmination of that on Thursday.
Any questions for us?
G. Gentner: Yeah. What's for breakfast?
N. Letnick (Chair): I'll leave that to Kate and Susan's wisdom.
Any other questions?
A motion to adjourn, then. I have to pick one. Katrine — there you go. You're in.
Motion approved.
The committee adjourned at 12:06 p.m.
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