Procedure and House Affairs Committee on Nov. 19th, 2020

Evidence of meeting #11 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 43rd Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was pandemic.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Main Estimates 2020-21: Vote 1 under House of Commons, Vote 1 under Leaders' Debates Commission, Vote 1 under Office of the Chief Electoral Officer and Vote 1 under Parliamentary Protective Service

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Stéphane Perrault Chief Electoral Officer, Elections Canada

Michel Roussel Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, Electoral Events and Innovation, Elections Canada

Marc Limoges Chief Financial Officer, Elections Canada

Clerk of the Committee Mr. Justin Vaive

Andre Barnes Committee Researcher

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota

Andre, how would we go about doing that? Is that all that would be required, that we have the motion stating we want to use testimony from the estimates towards our study?

November 19th, 2020 / 1 p.m.

Andre Barnes Committee Researcher

Thank you, Madam Chair. To start with, I suppose Justin would be better placed to discuss the procedure for doing it.

My colleague Laurence and I discussed this possibility. We were waiting to hear from the committee as to its thoughts on the matter. We'd be more than happy to include it. It would be a matter of the committee giving us the say-so.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota

Yes, I don't know if we need a formal motion.

Go ahead, Justin.

1 p.m.

The Clerk

Madam Chair, strictly speaking, to formalize it the committee could definitely adopt a motion to adduce the testimony from today's meeting, which was on the study of the main estimates, for the purpose of using it in the other study on conducting an election during a pandemic. It doesn't have to be done immediately, today, but at some point before the report is adopted it could be done.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota

Is there any opposition to doing that? If there's any debate on that matter, perhaps we should move it to another day. If there's no debate, maybe you should just move the motion, Mr. Blaikie, and that would be taken care of.

1 p.m.

NDP

Daniel Blaikie NDP Elmwood—Transcona, MB

Okay, provided that there will be no undue delays, please consider that motion moved.

1 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Ruby Sahota

I don't see any opposition to that motion.

(Motion agreed to)

Perfect. Thank you so much.

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