Apologies to our guests. Hopefully it will only take a moment.
We all received notification from the clerk that reads as follows: “Please find enclosed an order in council appointment, which was referred to the committee on Friday, May 29, 2015, pursuant to standing order 110(2). Under standing orders 110 and 111 the committee may call a nominee to appear before it during a period not to exceed 30 sitting days from the tabling date in order to examine the qualifications and the competence of the appointee to perform the duties of the post to which he or she has been appointed.”
Given that when there was a new law clerk we used that same clause to invite them in, I move that we invite the new Speaker of the Senate in, since that's the appointment that's referred to here.