Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Oct. 16th, 2018

[John Nater, Conservative, Perth—Wellington, ON]

It's a subamendment.

[Stephanie Kusie]

You're subamending it.

[John Nater, Conservative, Perth—Wellington, ON]

I'm not. Mr. Bittle is.

[Stephanie Kusie]

Mr. Bittle is subamending it with this.

Got it. Thank you.

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

Well, we can live with it.

[Chris Bittle, Liberal, St. Catharines, ON]

That's a glowing endorsement from Mr. Reid. Thank you.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

The first vote will be on the subamendment that's just been presented.

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

Can we get a quick explanation of it?

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Mr. Bittle, what—

[Stephanie Kusie]

Do you mean of the subamendment? I gave my explanation already. It was a recommendation of the commissioner to provide more information.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

And the change you made was...?

[Chris Bittle, Liberal, St. Catharines, ON]

The change was just to include what all parties were discussing and—

[Stephanie Kusie]

The telephone number, the Internet address, and so on.

[Scott Reid, Conservative, Lanark—Frontenac—Kingston, ON]

Yes, “in a manner that is clearly visible or otherwise accessible”. I assume that “otherwise accessible” is for things in an audio format or something like that.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Let's vote on the subamendment to CPC-90.

(Subamendment agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

(Amendment as amended agreed to [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Now LIB-28 cannot be moved, so we'll go to—

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

Aw.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Just for that, Cullen, NDP-18 was next, but it's consequential to NDP-17.

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

Yes, don't remind me. It's a good one.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We can discuss NDP-19—

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

This is exciting.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

—which you might present at this moment.

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

This is about the repository—it's always such a strange word to used in this conversation—a place to hold ads. That would be with the Chief Electoral Officer. It has to go to the Chief Electoral Officer within 10 days of transmission.

I don't think we have a clause in this—maybe later on—that allows for the length it needs to be held for, by law; I think there is one later on, but it's escaping me right now. Something about collating it is very important as well.

I think that LIB-25.... I'd have to refer to it exactly. Similar to what we just did, we're trying to get at a very similar purpose, which is to have a collection of the ads that have been used, partisan advertising that's been used, and have that maintained by the Chief Electoral Officer. It seems like a good spot to have it. You have to get it to them within 10 days.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Mr. Graham.

[David Graham, Liberal, Laurentides—Labelle, QC]

I don't understand. Right now, we're requiring the platforms themselves to retain these ads. Is that correct?

[Nathan Cullen, NDP, Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC]

That's for everything, for third party and the rest.