Evidence of meeting #59 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 lethbridge.

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MPs speaking

Also speaking

Benoit Montpetit  Team Leader, Technical Expert, Electoral Geography, Elections Canada

12:35 p.m.

Liberal

Stéphane Dion Liberal Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, QC

—we may assume that 15 minutes will be enough.

12:35 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

Madam Latendresse, do you have something to say on that subject?

12:35 p.m.

NDP

Alexandrine Latendresse NDP Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC

Yes, the analysis prepared by the team at the Library of Parliament summarized the proposals, and from it we could see that Mr. Shory's proposal was very simple. I think that it can work when the proposals are simple. But, generally speaking, we cannot always be sure. There might be a lot of questions that come up. I think it should be on a case-by-case basis.

12:35 p.m.

Conservative

The Chair Conservative Joe Preston

Right.

It is also the fact that the members who were available today were the members who were available today. There is another one who wasn't available today who will be joining us on Thursday. So, had he been able to be here, we would have done that, but you'll have to have a little bit of flexibility with us, because we're dealing with provinces. I can't put somebody from another province in while we're still dealing with Alberta, so I'll do my best.

Is there anything else from the committee?

I do thank you for our maps. This is a huge improvement. Thank you so much. This is helping a lot, and I think that may be another reason why we went a little faster today, because holding up paper maps the other day slowed us down a little bit too.

Thank you very much.

The meeting is adjourned.