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

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

I won't go that far.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Topic 9, time allocation and closure: give the Speaker, along with the Board of Internal Economy, the power or discretion to determine use of time allocation.

That was yours, Anita.

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

Yes, that one is from my speech.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Topic 10, video replay: provide video replay to the Speaker in order to review alleged instances of misbehaviour.

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

Sportscaster, too?

[Jamie Schmale, Conservative, Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON]

We have two referees and now video replays.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Was that Frank's?

[Don Davies, NDP, Vancouver Kingsway, BC]

That's Frank's.

[Jamie Schmale, Conservative, Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, ON]

Can we decline the first downs? I'm sorry—soccer rules.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We're now on table 14, on technical amendments.

This must have been quite a productive day in the House.

Topic 1, amend Standing Order 28(1): in the Standing Order dealing with the days when the House does not sit, replace “Dominion Day” with “Canada Day.”

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

I'll take it.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

David's the champion.

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

It's part of bringing it up to at least the end of the 20th century.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Topic 2, correct Standing Order 68(3): in the section of the Standing Orders that deal with introduction and readings of public bills, in English, the standing order reads that bills may not be tabled in “imperfect” form, while in French it reads that bills may not be tabled in “incomplete” form.

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

I'll take it.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

David's the champion.

Topic 3, correct Standing Order 71: in the section of the Standing Orders that deal with introduction and readings of public bills, in English, the standing order reads that every bill shall receive “three several readings.” In French it reads that every bill shall receive “three readings.” It was suggested “several” could be replaced with “separate.”

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

This one was dropped altogether. That's also from my speech. I'll take it.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Okay, David's the champion.

Table 15 is on technology, and there are two items here.

Topic 1, desk call buttons: install desk call buttons to call pages over and catch the eye of the Speaker.

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

That's from my speech.

[Arnold Chan, Liberal, Scarborough—Agincourt, ON]

David is—

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

There could be 100 buttons going off at once.

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

We could discuss it at more length if and when we get to that, but I have things to say about it.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Okay.

Topic 2, remote voting and tabling of documents: allow members who are temporarily incapacitated, pregnant or giving palliative care to vote and table documents remotely.

Does anyone want to discuss it?

We have one more page, and then maybe we'll have a short break for five minutes.

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

Then should I take it back to caucus? I don't know what we can do once we get past the end of this.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We're on the last page, table 16, miscellaneous topics, administrative, internal, legal, procedural. There are 20 topics here.

Topic 1, Board of Internal Economy: hold all meetings of the board in public.

Mr. Davies.

Topic 2, broadcasting committees: broadcast as many committee meetings as possible.

Mr. Davies.

Topic 3, broadcasting hecklers: record and broadcast members who engage in heckling.