Procedure and House Affairs Committee on April 18th, 2013

[Maxime Bernier, Conservative, Beauce, QC]

Indeed.

[Alexandrine Latendresse, NDP, Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC]

So going to 12% would represent a variance of nearly 6.5%, based on what I calculated.

[Maxime Bernier, Conservative, Beauce, QC]

It would.

[Alexandrine Latendresse, NDP, Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC]

So that would be quite all right. Furthermore, you have the support of the people in the community as well as that of your colleagues. I do not believe Mr. Paradis will be coming to testify before the committee.

[Maxime Bernier, Conservative, Beauce, QC]

No, but Mr. Paradis agrees with my proposal.

[Alexandrine Latendresse, NDP, Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC]

He approves of it?

[Maxime Bernier, Conservative, Beauce, QC]

Do you want him to send you a letter on the subject?

[Alexandrine Latendresse, NDP, Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC]

Yes, perhaps. I would just like to be certain.

[Maxime Bernier, Conservative, Beauce, QC]

Yes.

[Alexandrine Latendresse, NDP, Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC]

Because one of the things that we consider and that is very important for the committee is to ensure that the proposed changes have been approved by all those involved.

[Maxime Bernier, Conservative, Beauce, QC]

Mr. Gourde, who is here, will be able to confirm it orally, but I will get Mr. Paradis to write a brief letter to the committee to confirm what I have just said.

[Alexandrine Latendresse, NDP, Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC]

That would be perfect.

[Maxime Bernier, Conservative, Beauce, QC]

All right.

[Alexandrine Latendresse, NDP, Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC]

I really have very few questions to ask my colleagues from Les Etchemins. Here we have the figures showing us that you have a very reasonable quota variance. I think you made an excellent presentation explaining why Bellechasse and Les Etchemins have a community of interest and that those communities are really merged together.

[Steven Blaney, Conservative, Lévis—Bellechasse, QC]

They are together.

[Alexandrine Latendresse, NDP, Louis-Saint-Laurent, QC]

Once again, with the support of all the members and all the people concerned, I think this is very clear. In fact, I do not really have any supplementary questions to ask you.

[Sadia Groguhé, NDP, Saint-Lambert, QC]

My question is for my colleague François Lapointe.

I would like to know something about the name change. A name change was indeed provided for in the first proposal, but did the commission go back on that?

[François Lapointe, NDP, Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, QC]

It changed the suggestion, but it is still a new suggestion.

[Sadia Groguhé, NDP, Saint-Lambert, QC]

So it is a new suggestion related to the new boundaries, as it were.

[François Lapointe, NDP, Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, QC]

Yes and no.

[Sadia Groguhé, NDP, Saint-Lambert, QC]

What do you mean by yes and no?

[François Lapointe, NDP, Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, QC]

I am going to refer to the sequence of events, if that is fine with you.

[Sadia Groguhé, NDP, Saint-Lambert, QC]

No, my question—

[François Lapointe, NDP, Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, QC]

I will be brief.

[Sadia Groguhé, NDP, Saint-Lambert, QC]

All right.