Madam Chair, I could provide some clarity on that.
Essentially, the House motion of May 26 was a motion of instruction asking the committee to do a study on possible Standing Orders changes, incremental steps towards a hybrid Parliament, including remote voting. They had a reporting deadline of June 23 in that. The committee would be under some sort of obligation to report something back by June 23.
As I've indicated before, the nature of that report could be a recommendation to extend the deadline to some future point, for example. That's why ultimately the committee needs a specific hard deadline to make a determination on that. Whether it's July 10 or some other date down the road, there would be a need to do that. If the committee makes that type of decision, that could be the report that gets sent back to the Clerk of the House.
Of course, before a deadline can be made formal or official, the House needs to concur in it. Because we don't have the sittings in the usual way where a motion can be moved for a concurrence to the committee report during routine proceedings, some other mechanism would need to be in place that would permit the House to essentially give its approval to your recommendation to move the reporting deadline to some other date.
There are different ways of doing that. Special motions have been done in the House before, and we've seen that since the beginning of the pandemic. It could be done that way. There is a special provision from one of those motions, from April 23, where if the four House leaders of the recognized parties agree to a recommendation in a PROC report, such as a recommendation to extend the deadline, that could give effect to it as well. Simply your deciding to move it to another date does not necessarily guarantee that a new deadline will be officially made or officially set.
The first step, obviously, is to make a decision, if that is what you want, to ask for a deadline extension, and then of course determine what that specific date would be. Whether it's soon or whether it's later, that's up to you.