Procedure and House Affairs Committee on June 11th, 2020

Evidence of meeting #22 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 vote.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Parliamentary Duties and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Ginette Petitpas Taylor

Omar Alghabra

Also speaking

Aleksander Essex Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, As an Individual

Nicole Goodman Assistant Professor, Brock University, As an Individual

Pierre Roberge President, Arc4dia

Michael Morden Research Director, Samara Centre for Democracy

Ali Ghorbani Professor and Director, Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, University of New Brunswick, As an Individual

Guy-Vincent Jourdan Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, As an Individual

Chris Vickery Director of Cyber Risk Research, UpGuard, As an Individual

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Justin Vaive

Andre Barnes Committee Researcher

2:25 p.m.

Conservative

Blake Richards Conservative Banff—Airdrie, AB

I had the floor.

I'm not comfortable we're in a spot where voting on this is appropriate. There was still discussion being had. If we're now being told we're able to continue to meet, I'd like to continue the discussion, if we can. We'll have to set aside another time, as you've indicated.

The second part of the point of order is this. You indicated there's been some allusion to a meeting tomorrow. No one on my side, among the Conservative opposition, was aware of the meeting tomorrow. No one knows what the business would be. Can you fill us in on what happened there and how that came to be?

2:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota

This was discussed at the last meeting, that we had a one-hour time slot available. We asked some of the international witnesses who had indicated.... As you mentioned before, some witnesses indicated they were not interested, and others indicated they were interested, except the previous time was not doable for them. We once again went back to those witnesses to see if they'd still like to appear. We have one for the time slot tomorrow, and the rest of the time we can dedicate to committee time.

2:25 p.m.

The Clerk

Madam Chair, the meeting notice for tomorrow will be published after today's meeting. It should be coming out in the next hour or so.

2:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota

The time slot would be 11 to 12.

2:25 p.m.

The Clerk

That's correct.

2:25 p.m.

Liberal

Omar Alghabra Liberal Mississauga Centre, ON

Can we have a vote, please?

2:25 p.m.

Conservative

Blake Richards Conservative Banff—Airdrie, AB

I have a point of order, Madam Chair.

No, that's not possible. I have the floor, and I think there is still a discussion we need to have. I have some other ideas on how we might be able to [Inaudible—Editor], and if we have time for that discussion, I'd love to continue to share them.

2:25 p.m.

The Clerk

Mr. Richards is right. They're on debate right now on that motion.

2:25 p.m.

Conservative

Garnett Genuis Conservative Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan, AB

I'll just note that I have the floor as well. Sorry, I don't have the floor, but I'm on the list.

2:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota

All right. Since we're at a point where we cannot vote on the motion right now since debate is ongoing, we will wrap up for today and we will carry on from this point in committee business tomorrow.

See you tomorrow at 11 o'clock.

Thank you.