Procedure and House Affairs Committee on March 21st, 2017

[David Christopherson, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

Feel free.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

—but if you could stop at five minutes to twelve, I have some committee business for a couple of minutes.

[David Christopherson, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

Okay. Sure.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

You have another five minutes.

[David Christopherson, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

You want to hear from me for five more minutes?

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Yes, I'd love to.

[David Christopherson, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

Yes? Wow. Watch it. Careful. You have a whole country out there going, “What are you doing?”

[Voices]

Oh, oh!

[David Christopherson, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

The whole country...as if, right?

All right. I seek your guidance, Chair. I'm at the end of that thought. I was about to pivot, but if I'm going to end in five, I'm not sure I'm going to give you the eloquence you were hoping for.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Okay. Maybe we'll do the committee business now. That will probably take us to 12. Is that okay?

[David Christopherson, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

I'll be back up at nine tomorrow morning?

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Yes.

[David Christopherson, NDP, Hamilton Centre, ON]

Very good.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

We'll take a few seconds to go in camera for a piece of committee business that we normally do in camera.

[Proceedings continue in camera]

[Public proceedings resume]

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

I'm going to do some administrative stuff while we're waiting for David.

We're in the 55th meeting of the committee. We are going to meet from 9 o'clock until 1 o'clock today, and then we'll break. The speaker of the Scottish parliament will here for an informal meeting for one hour.

By the way, how many people plan to attend that? Good.

We will still suspend for question period. We'll come back after question period until roughly midnight, until we see the clock at midnight as we did last night.

Tomorrow, we'll go to question period. We'll start at the same time as today.

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

So that will be 9 o'clock.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Yes, it will be until 11 o'clock.

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

Then—

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

I'm not sure about next week yet. Hopefully we can come to some agreement before then.

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

Mr. Chair, we'd be cool starting half an hour after question period, just because we have to get out of there and disengage and all that stuff, as opposed to right at—

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

That's fair. Do you mean half an hour after question period today?

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

I suppose, given that it's actually Tuesday before last, two weeks from now on Thursday, I recommend that we begin at 3:30.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

Remind me when we get back.

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

Yes. Two weeks from now is April 6.

[The Chair, Liberal, Larry Bagnell]

As I say, about next week, we haven't decided. Hopefully we'll have something resolved by then. My preference is not to meet on Monday, or to meet on Monday after QP, but we haven't decided. We'll wait to see how things go.