Good morning, everyone. I call the meeting to order.
I will give some overview comments before we hear from our officials.
We have with us today, from the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development, Lenore Duff, senior director, strategic policy and legislative reform, labour program, and Charles Philippe Rochon, manager, labour law analysis.
As you know, we received a letter from the chair of the finance committee inviting our committee to consider the subject matter of clauses 219 to 232 of Bill C-45. The letter essentially invited our committee, if it deemed appropriate, to provide them with recommendations, including any suggested amendments. We do have with us today Christine Lafrance, who's a legislative clerk, should we need her later on in the meeting.
It's up to this committee in terms of what we propose to do after the hearing. I've looked at the notice of motion from the finance committee. Essentially, they leave it up to us to suggest whether we want any amendments or not. The decision will be theirs as to whether or not the amendments ultimately will be in order and considered in their clause-by-clause consideration of the far larger bill of which this forms a part, and they've referred specifically to us those portions that relate to the Canada Labour Code and specifically the sections that they reference in their motion.
My view was that we would get an overview of those particular clauses from the officials. Then I was suggesting to this committee that we have them go through each of the clauses. Then, in a way that is a bit different from the normal practice, where we have opening rounds, I would leave it up to the members who have questions to put those questions as we go through the clauses, without any particular order. We will recognize a speakers list to go through those questions. If we have time at the end of all of that, we could open it up to some rounds of questions, but it might be more productive if we were to go through it clause by clause and raise any questions.
That is the way I propose to proceed, subject to any further direction of the committee.
Mr. Boulerice, do you have a point?