Evidence of meeting #56 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 boundary.
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January 31st, 2013 / 11:30 a.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Mr. Simms, have you given us that information from the mayors? Is it in your documentation to us?
Liberal
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Could you make it available to us?
As Mr. Dion has said, it will help reinforce what you're saying.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Super.
Are there other questions from the committee?
Let's hope the rest of the world goes as easily as this did.
Gentlemen, thank you for coming today. As I think you can feel from the group, we're fairly supportive of what you've said today.
Just so the committee knows, we have the reinforcement of Elections Canada. They can come out with their map machine and show us how this all works.
Mr. Harris and Mr. Cleary, you've given a pretty good example of how that will work. Looking at the numbers, it looks as though we'll still stay within the percentages. It's truly up to the group as to whether we would like to do further research.
You know what the committee will do next. We'll have a quick discussion about your testimony today and gather our thoughts on what our report will look like. We'll then ask the analysts to go ahead and write the report and then we'll accept it. It's much like committees accepting reports. If in the interim we decide we need more research, we might ask you more questions or we'll certainly ask Elections Canada to show you the rest.
Mr. Simms.
Liberal
Scott Simms Liberal Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor, NL
Sorry, Mr. Chair. I didn't mean to interrupt.
Is there a certain time limit on getting you the information you've requested?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
It should be as soon as possible if you'd like us to attach it to our report that will go back to Elections Canada or to use the facts that are in it. We're going to try to move fairly quickly, each time we see a panel from a province, to write the report. We'll need to do translation before we can do that.
So, Mr. Simms, we'd like it as soon as you can get it to us.
Liberal
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Thank you.
If that's the case then I will dismiss our witnesses today. Thank you all for coming. It's been great having you here today.
We need to move in camera.
If you don't mind, I will suspend while we say goodbye to our witnesses. We'll then move in camera and we'll talk about the next item.
[Proceedings continue in camera]