On Thursday.
Evidence of meeting #3 for Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was may.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #3 for Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was may.
A recording is available from Parliament.
1:35 p.m.
Liberal
William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC
I will place on the public record that I will be at my daughter's theatre performance at her school and therefore I will not show.
1:35 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
You won't be here.
Is there any other business that anybody needed to put forward before we close this meeting?
Go ahead, Mr. Amos.
1:35 p.m.
Liberal
William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC
If I have other witnesses to suggest who are not on this list. Can I do that?
1:35 p.m.
Liberal
1:35 p.m.
Liberal
William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC
Okay.
I have a question about communication to the public: is there any reason why this committee can't have a Facebook page? If we don't know the answer to that question. Could the—
1:35 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
We can check it out. I think it would be up to us to decide if we want to.
1:35 p.m.
Liberal
William Amos Liberal Pontiac, QC
I think that's the case, and if it is permitted.... If we can find out the threshold answer, then I'd like to have that separate discussion, because I personally think it would be in the public interest for people to know what we're doing regularly through Facebook, and not only through the website, which nobody—
1:35 p.m.
The Clerk
I can certainly raise this with my management, but I do know, for example, that the Senate has a Twitter account for, I think, all of their committees. But one of the issues is that we obviously have to do everything bilingually and Facebook is not...and that poses a challenge. Everything we'd post would have to be bilingual, and then it's a matter of who is moderating the comments and so forth.
I just put that out there.
1:35 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Deb Schulte
We'll look into it.
There's another thing I wanted to ask. We were going to do a press release and, Nathan, you rightly said that we should hold off on that because we don't know what we're doing. Now we do. If we revise the press release with the changes and we bring it back on Thursday.... It's not as exciting as it would have been a month or so ago, but I think it's still very important and speaks to what Will is talking about—getting some messaging out there to people.
Does anybody have a problem with bringing that back for committee business on Thursday?
1:35 p.m.
Some voices
Sure.