Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Nov. 29th, 2007

Evidence of meeting #8 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was election.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Bill C-16, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act (expanded voting opportunities) and to make a consequential amendment to the Referendum Act

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

David Docherty Dean of Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University, As an Individual

Jon Pammett Political Science, Carleton University, As an Individual

Jean Ouellet Chief Electoral Officer, Elections Saskatchewan

David Wilkie Assistant Chief Electoral Officer, Elections Saskatchewan

Michel Bédard Committee Researcher

Clerk of the Committee Mr. James M. Latimer

12:45 p.m.

Liberal

Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC

Mr. Chair, seeing that we're not going to be doing the clause-by-clause on Tuesday, what is your plan for Tuesday morning? Could we use the Tuesday morning meeting to get back to this debate on this motion from Mrs. Redman?

12:45 p.m.

Liberal

Lucienne Robillard Liberal Westmount—Ville-Marie, QC

Instead of having two meetings.

12:45 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear

I think we're getting into a different range there. I'm going to suggest no. My attempt will be to have witnesses here on the other bills and to move forward with legislation that's on the table. These are extra meetings.

12:45 p.m.

Liberal

Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC

I see. Okay

12:45 p.m.

Liberal

Lucienne Robillard Liberal Westmount—Ville-Marie, QC

So do we have a delay to present the names of the witnesses?

12:45 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear

We have some names; I don't know who they are. But we are also asking for more names.

In fact, these gentlemen who were here right now might want to be added to the list. I'm waiting to see if members want to invite these folks, because we are going to be dealing with the issue of civic addresses.

I think we're moving off topic a bit. I'm going to have to adjourn the meeting. I don't want to do that, but it looks like we're going to have to deal with this again on Tuesday. Perhaps that's what we're going to have to do, because this is committee business.

12:45 p.m.

Liberal

Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC

Yes, but we're talking about committee future business.

12:45 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear

Okay. I think we'll have to continue this discussion on Tuesday--not necessarily discussion of the motion.

Does that make sense? Am I being clear?

12:45 p.m.

Liberal

Marcel Proulx Liberal Hull—Aylmer, QC

Yes, that's fine; so Tuesday morning.

12:45 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Gary Goodyear

At 11 o'clock.

Colleagues, you're so good to me. I appreciate it very much. That will be the decision.

A reminder: witnesses for Bill C-6 and Bill C-18, please. There will be the summary of the reports to members by Monday, with the idea of going to clause-by-clause on Thursday. With respect to amendments, we said one o'clock on Tuesday.

Thank you, members. We did well.

The meeting is adjourned.