If at the adjourned General Assembly meeting a quorum is not present the Members represented and entitled to vote upon the business to be transacted shall constitute a quorum and shall have power to decide upon all matters which could properly have been disposed of at the meeting from which the adjournment took place, but any decisions adopted at that meeting shall not take effect unless and until the minutes of the meeting have been circulated to all the Members and have been endorsed in writing or by e-mail by a simple majority of Members or a majority of two-thirds of Members for any Reserved Matter.

Yesterday in a meeting, American Senator Joe Lieberman, the Chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, praised Prime Minister Harper's decision as principled, and " not made as the result of a public opinion poll" .

1. Unless the Management Committee decides otherwise, the Director of the Office shall attend the meetings.

5. When a Party or member of the Commission that was not present at a meeting notifies the Director, in accordance with paragraph 4 of this Article, that it cannot join the consensus on a decision taken at that meeting, that member shall not be able to oppose consensus on the same issue if it is not present at the next meeting of the Commission at which that issue is on the agenda.

7. Without prejudice to the procedures referred to in Article 5 of the Decision on Kaleidoscope, Article 5 of the Decision on Ariane and Article 7 of the Decision on Raphael, Poland will be invited to any coordination meetings on questions concerning the implementation of this Decision prior to the regular meetings of the programme committees.

At the end of every meeting, the last decision is made by the emergency operations centre manager, or whoever has been designated by the chief emergency coordinator, which in the case of the City of Winnipeg plan is the CAO.