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May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, and that's a perfect segue to my last question. Would this committee be able to get both a list of key decisions that have to be made, and also the timing of those decisions and the process? Could we get those from you? We're getting closer to understanding this, but it's still a little bit nebulous about who's making the final call.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's great. Thank you, Chair. Thank you all for being here. It's interesting, quite fascinating, to watch this evolve. To me it looks like one of the tricky things going forward is the possibility of a parallel chamber. The good news is that this would enhance our democracy; we've already had an initial study.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I get that. I'm looking for a little more.

May 14th, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It is. When you're doing your review, will it go all the way to things like looking at whether your method of doing the production was the most effective?

May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's excellent, great. Thank you so much, sir. Now my payout.

May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You haven't studied it enough yet.

May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's funny you say that, because that was going to be my next question. Having just been down in the U.S., I wonder if you know off the top of your head how they handle those things?

May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's fair enough. It's fine. One of the other things that came up when we held our hearings in preparation for our report was social media. I'm very much in your category, probably, in terms of trying to stay on top of these things. It was a real eye-opener for me. It was good having Mr.

May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You wear it with pride, I'll bet.

May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Those are some of the folks who come in to see us too.

May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I hear you. I have two quick things. I know the chair is about to close in on me. I wanted to compliment you on the political choices—Megan Leslie, John Manley and Deb Grey. All of them would be seen as highly capable of being non-partisan, putting the interest of the election ahead of their own.

May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think you did an excellent job and succeeded. My last question—

May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Excellency.

May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I really liked your last answer. We went through a bit of a process in terms of how we got here, but when it came to the who, my comments are on record. Hearing your answer to the last question just reaffirms that in terms of which Canadians should be there and why. There's no better choice, and I'm really glad that you accepted.

May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting

David ChristophersonNDP