Okay, let's get started. I call this meeting back to order.
We're resuming meeting number 27 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, which started on April 13. We suspended the last meeting. Today is June 1, 2021.
Today's meeting, like we have been doing, is meeting in hybrid format. I believe everyone is participating virtually thus far. The room is available for those who may want to sub in, but I don't believe there are many subs scheduled for today.
I would like to just give you a couple of reminders. Make sure your interpretation channel is selected. Make sure that you mute and unmute your mikes. If you want to raise a point of order, then unmute your mike and say you have a point of order. If you want to speak to a point of order or the debate on the floor, then raise the hand in the toolbar.
I want to let you know that there has been a strain on our support resources, so you may have heard from your various whips that things are very tight not just for our committee but for all committees that are taking place. We have many people from our support teams who are not available right now. That includes interpretation and perhaps others as well, part of the technical teams. There will be a hard stop at one o'clock today. That's been agreed to by the whips of all the parties and I believe all committees will be limited to the two-hour time. I'll keep updating you on that. I don't know if it's just for today or if that is something we may have to deal with for some meetings to come.
Where we left off last time is that a subamendment was presented by Mr. Blaikie. Mr. Blaikie had the floor at the time and Mr. Therrien had his hand raised.
We could go back to you, Mr. Blaikie, if you want to refresh our memories on your subamendment. I'm sure everyone has it in front of them. Maybe this is a good time for you to let me know if you don't have Mr. Blaikie's subamendment so that we can forward it to you again.
Does everyone have the subamendment? Okay.
All right, so we are on that subamendment. After Mr. Blaikie we have Mr. Therrien on the list.
Mr. Blaikie, go ahead.