Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Feb. 14th, 2012

Evidence of meeting #21 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 41st Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was camera.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Broadcasting of the Proceedings of the House

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Alexandrine Latendresse

Bob Zimmer

Laurie Hawn

Joe Comartin

Also speaking

Audrey O'Brien Clerk of the House of Commons

Louis Bard Chief Information Officer, House of Commons

Michel Bédard Committee Researcher

12:05 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

I do remember, even with the Chief Electoral Officer's recommendations, that we didn't start at the beginning. We tried to pick the low-hanging fruit first and then go to what we thought might be toughest. We can reverse that order. Whatever order you want to go in, we'll certainly--

12:05 p.m.

NDP

Chris Charlton NDP Hamilton Mountain, ON

We don't have 12 years for this.

12:05 p.m.

Some hon. members

Oh, oh!

12:05 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

I was a young man when we started looking at the Chief Electoral Officer.

Mr. Albrecht.

12:10 p.m.

Conservative

Harold Albrecht Conservative Kitchener—Conestoga, ON

Not to get into the administrative detail, and I don't have any problem prioritizing, but I think it would be very difficult not to have them in some order--just for us, for reference's sake, to have them in some numerical order. I'm happy to pick the low-hanging fruit, that's not a problem, but to actually chart them that way I think might be--

12:10 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

The Standing Orders come to us in numerical order. They have numbers, and I think the easiest way for us is to take the ones we're looking at, and look at them from start to finish. But as I said, this group can say they want to skip those five and go to another one because that's what they really want to get to first. I think we can easily do that, and we've shown the ability to work together on those types of things.

We've made a commitment to you, Ms. Charlton, that one of the ones you had suggested would be one of the ones we'd bring up first and we'd go that way. I don't know what number it is, but I don't think it's number one in the Standing Orders.

12:10 p.m.

NDP

Chris Charlton NDP Hamilton Mountain, ON

It's 116.

12:10 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

Okay, so we'll get there.

Is everybody prepared?

12:10 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.