Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Dec. 8th, 2016

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

We can make a recommendation on that.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We can make recommendations.

[Anita Vandenbeld, Liberal, Ottawa West—Nepean, ON]

I'll champion that one.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Okay.

On number one, is there any party who rules that one out?

[Anita Vandenbeld, Liberal, Ottawa West—Nepean, ON]

Are we championing or are we ruling out?

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We're going to get it championed the first time through.

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

The first time through just get a champion.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Table 1 has to do with bills.

Topic 1 is the committee study of bills before second reading: recommend that the government make more frequent use of Standing Order 73.

Anita? Okay.

Topic 2 is on omnibus legislation: examine restricting the introduction of omnibus legislation, or declaring omnibus legislation inadmissible, with the exception of budget bills, provided that matters contained in the budget bill do not fall outside of budgetary matters.

Do we have a champion?

Mr. Davies.

Table 2 concerns committees.

Topic 1 is committee bills: give committees the power to draft and introduce bills.

Anita?

[Anita Vandenbeld, Liberal, Ottawa West—Nepean, ON]

I will.

[Ruby Sahota, Liberal, Brampton North, ON]

You want to champion everything.

[Anita Vandenbeld, Liberal, Ottawa West—Nepean, ON]

These are from my speech, actually.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

It's going to be a long report.

[Anita Vandenbeld, Liberal, Ottawa West—Nepean, ON]

I was the one who put these in on committees.

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

On the second pass you might get rid of more stuff.

[Anita Vandenbeld, Liberal, Ottawa West—Nepean, ON]

We have more than one.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

You might get what?

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

You might get rid of some more stuff in a second pass, but let's at least see. The worst case is that it isn't going to work.

[Anita Vandenbeld, Liberal, Ottawa West—Nepean, ON]

These came from my speech.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Maybe we should limit the number that Anita can champion.

[Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Liberal, Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB]

What do you mean?

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We're on table 2.

[Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Liberal, Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB]

What do you mean by a second pass? I'm confused.

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

We'll have a shortened list, hopefully, after this. We might get options sponsored by somebody, I don't know. Then we can get back to the study, because I don't think we're going to get this finished today—I think that's reasonable to assume—since we have to go back to caucus. It's not going to really get going until next year. We'll have a shortened list to work from, and if we want to punt more stuff, then so be it.

[Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Liberal, Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB]

Okay.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Okay, back to table 2.

Topic 2 is election of committee chairs by the House: devise a procedure to allow all members of the House to elect committee chairs.