Evidence of meeting #23 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was code.
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Conservative
Harold Albrecht Conservative Kitchener—Conestoga, ON
Okay. Could you just give us an example of some of those supporting documents? What are you actually referring to? I know it's receipts and so on, but....
12:45 p.m.
Assistant Commissioner, Advisory and Compliance, Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner
It means documents for transportation and accommodation: hotel bills and your flight. Other than that, for your gifts you receive you don't have to demonstrate what the value is. For other miscellaneous expenses, you don't have to provide supporting documents, but subsection 15(2) of the code is very explicit that “supporting documents for transportation and accommodation” are required.
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Conservative
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Thank you.
I have no one else on the list.
I would like to thank Madam Dawson and her--
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Liberal
Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC
[Inaudible--Editor]...no wonder we're not on the list, Mr. Chair.
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
It's amazing how this works when you do it....
I'd like to thank Madam Dawson and her guests for coming here today and answering all of our questions on the conflict of interest code and also many other questions. We thank them for coming and excuse them from the rest of today's meeting.
We have a small amount of committee business to deal with if we can, please. It is the practice....
Let's suspend for a minute.
12:55 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
We'll call this back to order, please. We have a small amount of committee business to do. It is the standard practice of this committee to do committee business in camera. Is that the will of the committee?
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An hon. member
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Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
We have a small amount of committee business to do. It's our standard practice to do that committee business in camera rather than in public, so I'm asking the will of the committee....
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An hon. member
Let's do that.
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An hon. member
Sure.