HANSARD
NOVA SCOTIA HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
STANDING COMMITTEE
ON
HUMAN RESOURCES
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Legislative Chamber
Appointments to Agencies, Boards and Commissions
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HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE
Chris Palmer (Chair)
Rick Burns (Vice Chair)
Melissa Sheehy-Richard
Danny MacGillivray
Adegoke Fadare
Krista Gallagher
Paul Wozney
Hon. Iain Rankin
Hon. Derek Mombourquette
[Krista Gallagher was replaced by Lina Hamid.]
In Attendance:
Genevieve Harvey
Legislative Counsel
Robin Dann
Legislative Committee Clerk
HALIFAX, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2025
STANDING COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES
1:00 P.M.
CHAIR
Chris Palmer
VICE CHAIR
Rick Burns
THE CHAIR: Order. I call this meeting to order. This is the Standing Committee on Human Resources. I’m Chris Palmer, MLA for Kings West and the Chair of the committee. Today, we’ll review appointments to agencies, boards and commissions. As per our Summer schedule, there will be no topic discussion today.
I’d also like to ask everybody to please put your phones on silent, and I’d like to ask all committee members to introduce themselves for the record by stating their name and their constituency beginning with Vice Chair Burns.
[The committee members introduced themselves.]
THE CHAIR: For the purposes of Hansard, I also recognize the presence of Legislative Counsel Genevieve Harvey and Legislative Committee Clerk Robin Dann. Welcome, Robin. At this point, we’ll now move on to our agencies, boards and commissions. I’d like to look for a motion to begin that.
MLA Burns.
RICK BURNS: For the first motion, for the Department of Advanced Education, I move to recommend Bethany Moffatt be appointed Member to the Acadia University Board of Governors.
THE CHAIR: There is a motion on the table. Any discussion?
All those in favour? Contrary minded? Thank you.
The motion is carried.
MLA Burns.
RICK BURNS: For the Department of Advanced Education, I move to recommend Paul Emile LeBlanc be appointed Member to the Université Sainte-Anne Board of Governors.
THE CHAIR: There is a motion on the table. Any discussion?
All those in favour? Contrary minded? Thank you.
The motion is carried.
MLA MacGillivray.
DANNY MACGILLIVRAY: For the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, I move to recommend Darren Desmond be appointed Member, Cape Breton, to the Council on African Canadian Education.
THE CHAIR: There is a motion on the table. Any discussion?
All those in favour? Contrary minded? Thank you.
The motion is carried.
MLA MacGillivray.
DANNY MACGILLIVRAY: For the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, I move to recommend Randy Headley be appointed Member, Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute, to the Council on African Canadian Education.
THE CHAIR: Motion on the table. Any discussion?
All those in favour? Contrary minded? Thank you.
The motion is carried.
MLA MacGillivray.
DANNY MACGILLIVRAY: For the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, I move to recommend Jerome Downey be appointed Member at Large to the Council on African Canadian Education.
THE CHAIR: There is a motion on the table. Any discussion?
All those in favour? Contrary minded? Thank you.
The motion is carried.
MLA MacGillivray.
DANNY MACGILLIVRAY: For the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, I move to recommend John Grant and Iain Harnish be appointed Members to the Nova Scotia Teachers College Foundation Board of Governors.
THE CHAIR: There is a motion on the table. Any discussion?
All those in favour? Contrary minded? Thank you.
The motion is carried.
MLA MacGillivray.
DANNY MACGILLIVRAY: For the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, I move to recommend Alexander MacDougall be appointed Member, Chair Designate to the Nova Scotia Teachers College Foundation Board of Governors.
THE CHAIR: Motion on the table. Any discussion?
All those in favour? Contrary minded? Thank you.
The motion is carried.
MLA Sheehy-Richard.
MELISSA SHEEHY-RICHARD: For the Advisory Council on the Status of Women, I move to recommend Anne-Marie Belliveau, Joël Dawn Dickinson, Cheyenne Jones, and Tasha Richard be appointed Members of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women.
THE CHAIR: There is a motion on the table. Any discussion?
All those in favour? Contrary minded? Thank you.
The motion is carried.
That concludes our agencies, boards and commissions appointments. There is no other business submitted. Is there any other business?
Seeing none, our next meeting will be Tuesday, August 5, 2025, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. At that point, we’ll again be doing appointments to agencies, boards and commissions. With that, we now stand adjourned.
[The committee adjourned at 1:04 p.m.]
