Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's fine.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, strictly speaking, you can say it took our commission 14 months, but I would say it was a little less. At the time of the courses, our commission was not yet operating, I believe, but when it started, we didn't have a judge. A new judge was appointed, but he had to resign af

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. Once the commissions are formed, the time period will still be the same. You nevertheless have to plan for all the time necessary to hear people, even though, as in many other situations, you never know how much time it will take. You prepare for that. We didn't hear people

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I will be very pleased to send them to you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have no objection in that regard. It will be very quick.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  People will definitely ask to have that period extended, but that will change absolutely nothing. Why shorten a period when you can always extend it in any case? I wonder why these people wanted to shorten it and enter that in a very specific framework. That's not a problem in sm

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I believe that Elections Canada absolutely wants to implement the new bill in the context of the election schedule for 2015. So they're shortening the periods based on that. You can imagine that, if the commission is allowed to extend that period by itself, certain commissions ma

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The commission's role is to hear people. So they have to be given as much latitude as possible for that purpose. You have to open the doors and ensure that people are heard. When they are, they're happy, even when they're not right. That's important.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll tell you right away that that subject is not my responsibility. It's political. Here I'm telling you about the work we have to do, not the intentions of the people in the ridings.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are the two periods I spoke to you about, those of 23 and 53 days. The eight-month period should also be extended to one year at the outset.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll give you the details; I've noted them down. People have a period of 53 days following publication of the notice to send written notice to the commission to appear before it. The amendment to the act provides that the notice of people interested in appearing will have to be s

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct. The other problem concerns subsection 19(2) of the act, which reads as follows: (2) Notice of the time and place fixed by the commission for any sittings to be held by it for the hearing of representations from interested persons shall be given by advertisement

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct, and that's the case for both those periods. The other changes don't trouble us.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are three in all.