Good morning, this is meeting number 31 of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs for the first session of the 42nd Parliament. This meeting is being held in public. If we want to pick up where we left off, before the summer adjournment on June 16 at meeting 29, we were debating a motion moved by Blake Richards as well as the amendment by Jamie Schmale. He had lots to say on this amendment.
That, in relation to its study on the question of privilege related to the matter of the premature disclosure of the contents of Bill C-14, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying) and pursuant to the Handling and Safeguarding of Classified and Protected Information and Assets guidelines, and the requirement to maintain a distribution list of all SECRET information, the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs request that the Government provide a full distribution list of all persons who had access to any copies of the legislation on Bill C-14, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying) prior to its introduction, to the Committee no later than June 21st, 2016.
Then the amendment to the motion reads, “That the motion be amended by deleting the words 'no later than June 21, 2016'.”
No decision had been made at the time we adjourned, so I'll pass it over to Mr. Richards to start.