(a) To appoint of their number, one or more subcommittees and to refer to such subcommittees any of the matters referred to the Committee;

(b) To sit during any sitting of the House; and

(c) To retain such personnel as required to assist the Committee;

(d) To permit minority opinions in a report of the Committee;

and shall report to the House as soon as possible.

53   The Hon. J. MacPhail moved--

Be it resolved that this House hereby authorizes the Committee of Supply for this Session to sit in two sections designated Section A and Section B; Section A to sit in such Committee Room as may be appointed from time to time, and Section B to sit in the Chamber of the Assembly, subject to the following rules:

1. The Standing Orders applicable to the Committee of the Whole House shall be applicable in both Sections of the Committee of Supply save and except that in Section A, a Minister may defer to a Deputy Minister to permit such Deputy to reply to a question put to the Minister.

2. Subject to paragraph 3, within one sitting day of the passage of this Motion, the House Leader of the Official Opposition may advise the Government House Leader, in writing, of three ministerial Estimates which the Official Opposition requires to be considered in Section B of the Committee of Supply, and upon receipt of such notice in writing, the Government House Leader shall confirm in writing that the said three ministerial Estimates shall be considered in Section B of the Committee of Supply.

3. All Estimates shall stand referred to Section A, save and except those Estimates which shall be referred to Section B under the provisions of paragraph 2 of this Order and such other Estimates as shall be referred to Section B on motion by the Government House Leader, which motion shall be governed by the provisions of Standing Order 60a. Practice Recommendation #6 relating to Consultation shall be applicable to this rule.

4. Section A shall consist of 18 Members, being 10 Members of the New Democratic Party, 7 Members of the Liberal Party, and 1 other Member. In addition, the Deputy Chair of the Committee of the Whole, or his or her nominee, shall preside over the debates in Section A. Substitution of Members will be permitted to Section A with the consent of that Member's Whip, where applicable, otherwise with the consent of the Member involved. For the second session of the Thirty-sixth Parliament, the Members of Section A shall be as follows: the Minister whose Estimates are under consideration and Messrs. Calendino, Giesbrecht, Lali, Robertson, Orcherton and Stevenson, Mmes. Gillespie, Kwan and Sawicki and Messrs. Anderson, Dalton, Hansen, Masi, Symons and Thorpe, Ms. McKinnon and Mr. Weisgerber.

5. At fifteen minutes prior to the ordinary time fixed for adjournment of the House, the Chair of Section A will report to the House. In the event such report includes the last vote in a particular ministerial Estimate, after such report has been made to the House, the Government shall have a maximum of eight minutes, and the Official Opposition a maximum of five minutes, and all other Members (cumulatively) a maximum of three minutes to summarize the Committee debate on a particular ministerial Estimate completed, such summaries to be in the following order:

(1) Other Members;

(2) Official Opposition; and

(3) Government.

6. Section B shall be composed of all Members of the House.

7. Divisions in Section A will be signalled by the ringing of the division bells four times.

8. Divisions in Section B will be signalled by the ringing of the division bells three times at which time proceedings in Section A will be suspended until completion of the division in Section B.

9. Section B is hereby authorized to consider Bills referred to Committee after second reading thereof and the Standing Orders applicable to Bills in Committee of the Whole shall be applicable to such Bills during consideration thereof in Section B, and for all purposes Section B shall be deemed to be a Committee of the Whole. Such referrals to Section B shall be made upon motion without notice by the Minister responsible for the Bill, and such motion shall be decided without amendment or debate. Practice Recommendation #6 relating to Consultation shall be applicable to all such referrals.

10. Bills or Estimates previously referred to a designated Committee may at any stage be subsequently referred to another designated Committee on motion of the Government House Leader or Minister responsible for the Bill as hereinbefore provided by Rules No. 3 and 9.

Motion agreed to.

Pursuant to Order, the House resumed the adjourned debate on the Address in Reply to the Speech of His Honour the Lieutenant Governor at the opening of the Session.

The debate continued.

The House divided.

Motion agreed to on the following division:

YEAS -- 37
Evans Zirnhelt McGregor Boone Hammell Streifel Pullinger Farnworth Kwan Waddell	Calendino Stevenson Bowbrick Goodacre Giesbrecht Walsh Kasper Orcherton Hartley	Priddy Petter Miller Dosanjh MacPhail Cashore Ramsey Brewin Sihota	Randall Sawicki Lali Doyle Gillespie Robertson Smallwood Conroy Janssen
NAYS -- 32
Gingell Campbell Farrell-Collins Plant Sanders Hurd Stephens de Jong	Coell Anderson Nebbeling Whittred van Dongen Thorpe Penner Weisgerber	G. Wilson J. Wilson Hansen Symons Hawkins Abbott Jarvis Weisbeck	Chong Coleman Nettleton Masi McKinnon Krueger Barisoff Neufeld

And then the House adjourned at 5.51 p.m.

DALE LOVICK, Speaker

MEETINGS OF COMMITTEES

SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE
ON ABORIGINAL AFFAIRS

The Committee will meet from 3 o'clock p.m. to 6 o'clock p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in the Birch Room (Room 339).

Business: Review and Agenda.

I. Waddell, Chair
H. Lali, Deputy Chair
 

SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

The Committee will meet at 8.15 o'clock a.m. on Tuesday, April 22, in the Douglas Fir Room (Room 226).

Business: Organization and draft Committee Report to the House (from the First Session).

F. Gingell, Convener

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