Procedure and House Affairs Committee on May 1st, 2014

[Craig Scott, NDP, Toronto—Danforth, ON]

No.

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

If you want to go forward we're fine with that.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Just for a little while....

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

There would have to be enough time for the rest of these to be debated and it would be five o'clock.

[Craig Scott, NDP, Toronto—Danforth, ON]

I think in the past we've been standing things to a little bit further ahead.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

I'm at the will of the committee. I understand where we are, but the problem is that people want to discuss this with their helpers.

[David Christopherson, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

Mr. Chair, could I make a suggestion? Maybe we'll say that at four o'clock we either move to this immediately or upon concluding whatever we're doing at 4:00 the next item will be this. That gives us ample time to do a little research, a half an hour, and some points we'd like to get on the record. What do you think?

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

I know what you're doing and I agree with you, Craig. You have a number of amendments in here that you want to discuss and I'm fully agreeing that we should. As long as I can get the hard copy now, so we could just—

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

It's either that or we carry on with the other amendments in this clause.

Mr. Scott.

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

We're agreeable to that as well, if you want to do that.

[Craig Scott, NDP, Toronto—Danforth, ON]

Can I propose that we break for five minutes, because I think that's probably all the time we would...?

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

It might be. I just need a copy of it.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

That's great.

[David Christopherson, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

Give us five, and then we can pick up where we are and keep going. How's that?

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Okay; it's four minutes.

[David Christopherson, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

All right.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

I'm counting.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

We're back.

Do we have a chance to discuss Mr. Simms' clause—“Simms II”, I called it—whatever it is? It's Liberal amendment 28.1, to be official.

I have Mr. Lukiwski first.

[Tom Lukiwski, Conservative, Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK]

I was going to get our PCO officials to make comment first on what Mr. Simms is proposing.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Okay, we'll hear advice from the far end of the table.

[Marc Chénier]

Mr. Chair, the bill at different places requires registration notices to be filed within 48 hours. In our opinion, it doesn't really matter whether you put it before the first calls are made, because the CRTC doesn't enforce any other thing than the registration rules. That's the only thing they enforce, so whether it's before the first calls are made or 48 hours after the calls are made, they would still be able to enforce whether or not the registration notices were filed as per the requirements of the act.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Go ahead, Mr. Simms.

[Scott Simms, Liberal, Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor, NL]

I appreciate that, but this is why I was saying.... Maybe I'm being way too suspicious about people who want to make bad calls. We are worried about the outcome of the election, as distinct from the outcome of what the CRTC says.

[An hon. member]

I understand. I see what you're saying.

[The Chair, Conservative, Joe Preston]

Is there further comment on this amendment?

Mr. Scott.