Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Nov. 26th, 2009

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Or not.

[Yvon Godin, NDP, Acadie—Bathurst, NB]

Or not, but we will make that decision here.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Right.

Mr. Reid.

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON]

To be correct, I think when a motion is transferred by the House, the House is saying it doesn't want to deal with it because it has other business, so it sends off the authority to deal with the matter. It's only a delegated authority. It has to come back to the House for concurrence, which is the point of concurrence motions. The actual privilege remains that of Mr. Stoffer, as opposed to the privileges of the committee itself.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

That is my interpretation too, but we will do some more homework on this. If it's all right with the committee, at our next meeting we'll discuss how we will do this in the future.

Our next meeting, on Tuesday, is a full meeting. We'll set aside a small amount of time at the end to deal with how we'll move on this issue. We will probably deal with it in the second meeting of next week.

I'm looking for some nods that I'm on the right track.

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[Marcel Proulx, Liberal, Hull—Aylmer, QC]

May I make the suggestion that we discuss this at the start of the next meeting?

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

All right.

[Marcel Proulx, Liberal, Hull—Aylmer, QC]

Who are the witnesses at the next meeting?

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

There are the three provincial chief electoral officers.

[Marcel Proulx, Liberal, Hull—Aylmer, QC]

Let's invite them for 15 or 20 minutes after the start of the meeting—

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

So during a limited piece at the beginning of the next meeting.

[Marcel Proulx, Liberal, Hull—Aylmer, QC]

—or half an hour, or whatever.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Fine, let's do it that way.

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Great. Is there anything else for the committee today?

Seeing nothing, I thank you all. I'll see you next Tuesday.

The meeting is adjourned.