Mr. Chairman, as I clearly recall, we've already had all of these discussions. However, since this is a new Parliament, we can go over this one more time. No doubt James Robertson remembers that in the past we have held televised meetings in this room, in particular meetings of the procedure and house affairs committee. The CBC, CTV and Radio-Canada have all televised our proceedings. However, certain rules applied. We discussed time allocation and the fact that the witness list is subject to change at the last minute. We have absolutely nothing to hide. These are public, not in camera, meetings. Our goal in having the meetings televised was to make them more accessible to the public. I don't have a problem with reviewing the guidelines again, but we've already looked into this. We tried it out here and it worked very well.
On May 9th, 2006. See this statement in context.