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Evidence of meeting #105 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was monday.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #105 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was monday.
A recording is available from Parliament.
NDP
Liberal
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
I'm not going there, Chair. Them's fightin' words. You know that.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
All right, I'll present the report. I'll briefly outline the major changes, not all the technical points, and then leave it for them to ask questions of us. It's one hour.
The other thing that we've agreed to do is come back to this indigenous language study on Thursday.
Is that what you want to do for one hour?
Conservative
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
By definition, if we do it then, we have to slot in a further time, somewhere in June, perhaps.
I'm assuming you need a further seven days after that, but we haven't completed the process of giving you, Andre, the entire first draft to work on, so you have partly a first draft and partly a second draft.
I'm positive we're going to need a second meeting. Can we slot that one in as well? Is it reasonable to say May 31 and then come back on June 7, or is that not enough time?
Andre Barnes Committee Researcher
It would frankly depend on the next suggested changes. It could well be quick.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
Okay.
Obviously my concern is that we're going to face a point at which we won't be able to submit it, because it has to go out to translation, and we're going to do a line-by-line at some point, and I'm worried. I don't want us to slide past the end of our session.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
Could it be May 31 and June 7, for one hour in each of those meetings?
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
Could we try doing that? That would seem reasonable to me.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
I just want to make sure it's okay with our analyst.
Conservative
Blake Richards Conservative Banff—Airdrie, AB
The question for us in that scenario is.... I know it's something in which you can't foresee what could potentially be, but could foresee, I guess, the greater amount of what you might expect or of what there could potentially be. Would this hour still leave you enough time? Do you believe that it likely would?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
I have one other very minor thing, and this is just a personal request, not for any discussion right now, but for people to get back to me on personally.
I am vice-chair of the Conference of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region. Every Arctic country except ours does electronic voting. We've discussed it a bit in examining the Standing Orders, but I'd like people to get back to me personally—this is my personal request—if you have any interest in our discussing this.
I don't want to discuss it now; just get back to me.
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
You're talking about the House and not general elections, right?
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Larry Bagnell
Don't discuss it now, but get back to me if you have any interest, and then I'll pursue it somehow.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON
Can I ask one more question about this? So every country—
Conservative