Evidence of meeting #1 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 39th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was documents.
Liberal
Karen Redman Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
I just received it, Jay, so I'm just having a look at it. I guess my only question is that group three doesn't have any new committee and there are on two occasions where group two has two new committees. I'm assuming that was logistical, for rooms and other things.
Conservative
Jay Hill Conservative Prince George—Peace River, BC
I don't even know who drew it up. I've had it for quite some time, because as I work through assigning...some of my members obviously will be sitting on multiple committees. You obviously need to use that, because you can't have one member of Parliament sitting on two committees that are meeting at the same time. The old proverb “You can't be in two places at once” I'm sure would apply even to members of Parliament. I was using that when I went through that, so I don't understand why you had not received it earlier. I think it was just suggestions that were put forward by perhaps the clerk's office. I don't know where it came from.
Do you know, Michel? I've had it for well over a week--I think for a couple of weeks.
Liberal
Karen Redman Liberal Kitchener Centre, ON
If you look at the groups, there are generally six meeting. Having not studied it, I don't have a problem with it right now, as long as I could reserve the right to come back to it if we saw some anomaly.
Conservative
Jay Hill Conservative Prince George—Peace River, BC
It might be problematic for you if you've already worked through assigning some of your MPs to more than one committee. As I said, it obviously dramatically alters that if you presently have them scheduled to be on two committees that are meeting at the same time. You might want to check that out.
Conservative
The Acting Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear
Given that this is a decision the whips can get together and discuss, I think the intention was to just get it done as quickly as possible and you can report back to the committee.
Are there any other matters we need to discuss today?
NDP
Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB
There is the one we just dealt with, the private members' business. When do we have to send in the names for the committee to take place? We just elected the chair, but the other parties have to send names in.
Conservative
The Acting Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear
Do you want to do that now? If you're not prepared, that's fine. There's no rush for that. I understand that some parties are not prepared to do that today.
My understanding is that the draw for private members' bills is tomorrow, but the committee doesn't have to be struck that quickly, so there's no rush. I'm sure we can get that arranged.
Yes, sir.
Bloc
Michel Guimond Bloc Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to let the clerk know that Ms. Pauline Picard, the Member for Drummond, will represent the Bloc Québécois on the Sub-committee on Private Members' Business.
Conservative
The Acting Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear
Okay. It looks as if we did that.
Is there any other business?
Members, I don't want to interrupt--everybody is obviously getting ready to leave--but we also need vice-chairs for the subcommittee on agenda and procedure. Is anybody prepared to put forward names today?
The Clerk
It's the chair and two vice-chairs of the committee, and you need one person from the NDP. It would have to be Monsieur Godin.
Conservative
The Acting Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear
Okay. I think that puts you in there. You stood up and volunteered.
We need two vice-chairs now?
Conservative
The Acting Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear
Okay, fine.
The subcommittee on agenda and procedure we'll decide at the next committee--
NDP
Yvon Godin NDP Acadie—Bathurst, NB
I'm sorry, I was not looking to be vice-chair. I was just looking to be--
Conservative
The Acting Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear
No, you're just a member.
Is there any other business we need to deal with today?
Since there is none, the meeting is adjourned.