The House is on summer break, scheduled to return Sept. 15

Evidence of meeting #19 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 date.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Members speaking

Before the committee

Linda Johnson  Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, Elections BC
James Robertson  Committee Researcher

12:30 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear

Mr. Hill, would you like to respond to that?

12:30 p.m.

Conservative

Jay Hill Conservative Prince George—Peace River, BC

I appreciate that you want to know, Michel; that's fair enough. But we're not prepared to state at this point in time whether it will be a very formal presentation in the form of legislation or whether it will just be a reply to the report.

12:35 p.m.

Conservative

Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK

I can just assure Monsieur Guimond that there will be a response by the deadline, obviously, but I can't comment on the content.

Michel Guimond Bloc Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC

Does the government realize, if we want it before the next election.... If we have the election next month, we won't have time, but if we have some time, I think we'll have enough time to make changes.

You realize the dilemma?

12:35 p.m.

Conservative

Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK

Yes.

Michel Guimond Bloc Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, QC

Okay. Thank you.

12:35 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear

Just to remind the committee, the government has 150 calendar days to respond to that report. I think that October 20, give or take, is the time.

Is there any further business by the committee?

Seeing none, the meeting is adjourned.