Evidence of meeting #15 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 43rd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was point.
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Bloc
Christine Normandin Bloc Saint-Jean, QC
Alphabetical order will not be the same in the other languages, however.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota
That's correct.
What do we do about that, Andre? What do you usually do?
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Committee Researcher
This is a very difficult question.
Would it matter if the order wasn't the same in both languages? I guess it would throw things off if the order wasn't the same in both languages.
Let me mull this problem over, please.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota
I think that we should ideally try to have it all in the same section regardless of whether you're looking at the French version or the English version, but I leave that up to you, Andre. Really, it's about how you can logically put it together.
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Committee Researcher
I was just thinking perhaps of some sort of geographical east-to-west arrangement.
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Conservative
Eric Duncan Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
We could consider the order of provinces entering Confederation.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota
That could be it.
Is everyone okay with the first part of the Scotland section?
Section E.i.(b) is “Changes to Standing Orders”. This is still in the Scotland section. I'm seeing a lot of thumbs up already for changes to the Standing Orders.
Go ahead, Madam Normandin.
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Bloc
Christine Normandin Bloc Saint-Jean, QC
I don't know if it is only in the French version, but under “Modifications au Règlement” it says “on a remplacé ‘le système de vote électronique’ par ‘un système de vote électronique.’”
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota
It's in the English version as well. Yes, it was in both versions.
On E.i.(c), “Future plans”, can you give me thumbs up for that, and for section E.i.(d), “Pandemic response plan”? We can take a look at both together.
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Conservative
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Conservative
Eric Duncan Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
Under “Future plans”, because of the timelines, if I recall, Scotland, in particular with the U.K., is reviewing their decisions or their renewal, I believe, next week. It's getting really tight for timelines on the report, but I follow with interest the example of Scotland about looking to expand the number of virtual committee meetings being held.
If Andre is monitoring that at all, and there is something in the next few days, even for my own interest, I would be interested to see what they do, what standing orders they change and those types of things. I'm not sure if there will be any updates before then, but maybe we could keep an eye on all of those to get the latest ones.
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Bloc
Christine Normandin Bloc Saint-Jean, QC
Coming back to what I said before, in the end, I believe what was written was correct if “le système de vote” was replaced with “un système de vote”. I had read that too quickly.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota
Thank you.
All right, so we're good with sections E.i.(c) and E.i.(d), “Future plans” and “Pandemic response plan”.
Mr. Brassard, do you have a point? No. Okay, it looks like we're good.
We can move on to the United Kingdom, then.
Everyone seems to be good with the overview. Next is section E.ii.(b), “ Hybrid House of Commons”.
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Conservative
Eric Duncan Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
I have a note on that point specifically. Maybe a line could be added about the length of the period that they had. The original, I believe, was May 12 or sometime next week, but they're going to review and/or extend or modify. Then, specifically on page 13, with reference to lines 1 and 2, I believe the day we met they were testing the remote voting as we spoke, so there may be some more information from Mr. Hamlyn on their findings on that, which would be of great value if it could be added.
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Liberal
The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota
Okay. You seem to take just as much interest as Mr. Reid used to take in our other parliamentary cousins.
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Conservative
Eric Duncan Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
I don't want to give away how big a nerd I am, but I think in our first few meetings I was guilty.
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Conservative
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Voices
Oh, oh!
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Liberal
Ryan Turnbull Liberal Whitby, ON
Madam Chair, are we still on the section on “Hybrid House of Commons”?
