CONTENTS

Standing Committee on Private Bills

THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

of the

Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

STANDING COMMITTEE ON

PRIVATE BILLS

Hansard Verbatim Report

No. 1— Wednesday, December 4, 2024

[The committee met at 08:36.]

Procedural Clerk: — Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Standing Committee on Private Bills. I’m Miranda Gudereit, the committee Clerk. It is my duty as committee Clerk to preside over the election of a new Chair.

I’d like to remind members of the process. I will first ask for nominations. Once there are no further nominations, I will then ask a member to move a motion to have a committee member preside as Chair. I will now call for nominations for that position. I recognize Minister McLeod.

Hon. Tim McLeod: — I nominate Blaine McLeod.

Procedural Clerk: — Minister McLeod has nominated MLA [Member of the Legislative Assembly] Blaine McLeod into the position of Chair. Are there any further nominations? Seeing none, I would now invite one of the members to move the motion. Minister McLeod.

Hon. Tim McLeod: — I move:

That Blaine McLeod be elected to president as . . . to preside as Chair of the Standing Committee on Private Bills.

Procedural Clerk: — It has been moved by Minister McLeod:

That Blaine McLeod be elected to preside as Chair of the Standing Committee on Private Bills.

All in favour of the motion?

Some Hon. Members: — Agreed.

Procedural Clerk: — All those opposed? I declare the motion carried and invite MLA McLeod to take the Chair.

Chair B. McLeod: — Welcome and thank you for that vote of confidence. Chair as opposed to president . . . I think that’s probably a better way to go. So thank you so much.

So welcome to the Standing Committee on Private Bills. My name is Blaine McLeod and I come from the constituency of Lumsden-Morse and I am the committee Chair.

Our first item of business today is the election of a Deputy Chair. And pursuant to rule 123(2) the Deputy Chair must be an opposition member unless specified in the rules. I’d like to remind members of the process. I will first ask for nominations, and once there are no further nominations, I will then ask a member to move a motion to have a committee member preside as Deputy Chair.

So I will now call for nominations for that position. I recognize MLA Vicki Mowat.

Vicki Mowat: — I nominate Meara Conway.

Chair B. McLeod: — MLA Mowat has nominated Meara Conway to the position of Deputy Chair. Are there any further nominations? Seeing none, I would now invite one of the members to move a motion recognizing that. Go ahead, please.

Vicki Mowat: — I move:

That Meara Conway be elected to preside as Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Private Bills.

Chair B. McLeod: — It has been moved by MLA Mowat:

That Meara Conway be elected to preside as Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Private Bills.

All in favour of that motion?

Some Hon. Members: — Agreed.

Chair B. McLeod: — Any opposed? I declare the motion carried.

The next item of business on our agenda is the establishment of a steering committee, and I would ask a member to move the steering committee motion. I recognize MLA Tim McLeod.

Hon. Tim McLeod: — Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move:

That a steering committee be appointed to establish an agenda and priority of business for subsequent meetings and that the membership be comprised of the Chair and Deputy Chair; and further,

That the steering committee shall meet from time to time as directed by the committee or at the call of the Chair; that the presence of all members of the steering committee is necessary to constitute a meeting; and that substitutions from the membership of the Standing Committee on Private Bills be permitted on the steering committee.

Chair B. McLeod: — MLA Tim McLeod has moved. Is that agreed?

Some Hon. Members: — Agreed.

Chair B. McLeod: — It is carried. That concludes our business then for today, and I would ask a member to move a motion of adjournment.

Hon. Tim McLeod: — I so move.

Chair B. McLeod: — MLA Tim McLeod has moved. All agreed?

Some Hon. Members: — Agreed.

Chair B. McLeod: — Carried. This committee stands adjourned to the call of the Chair.

[The committee adjourned at 08:41.]

Published under the authority of the Hon. Todd Goudy, Speaker

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