Thank you.
Can I start with a couple of questions to you and the clerk to clarify things for me?
The motion actually says “report to the House that the Standing Orders...be amended”. To me, this isn't a request or a recommendation; this is a direct requirement. Do we have that authority, as a committee, to direct the House to do that?
The report would say that the standing committee orders be amended. It doesn't say “recommended to be amended”; it says “be amended”. My question is whether we have the authority to do that--yes or no?