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- Title: Some Proposals to Revitalize Committe Proceedings in Quebec.
- Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 270 KB
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A number of legislators feel there is a need to revive the reform movement insofar as committee work is concerned. This stems from dissatisfaction with the role assigned to members in the work of the committees and the latitude left to them in the organization, progress and follow-up of orders of reference given committees by the Assembly or undertaken by them on their own initiative. The member for Matane, Matthias Rioux, spoke out on behalf of this movement in a letter sent on November 3, 1999 to the Speaker of the Quebec National Assembly. He expressed disappointment with the overall results of the parliamentary committees which, notwithstanding some occasional good work, are hindered in their efforts by a large number of regulatory constraints and excessive control by party caucuses. As a result of Mr. Rioux's initiative, Speaker Jean-Pierre Charbonneau called a meeting of all the chairmen and vice-chairmen of parliamentary committees a few weeks later to consider appropriate measures. It was resolved to form a group to review the work of committees. The group was instructed to prepare a report and to consider what changes might be made to improve the functioning and performance of committees. This article presents the conclusion and thirteen proposals for revitalizing committee work. Some worthwhile progress has been achieved in recent years. The committees are on the right track having increased their independent activities and they are exercising more effectively their powers of initiative and surveillance. But this trend is still too recent and embryonic. In our opinion, it is still necessary to go further and to revive the spirit of the 1984 reforms. That is why we have formulated a number of proposals that are designed to make committees even more interesting and stimulating places of work for the members.