Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair.
For votes that are prescheduled directly after QP that don't have any bells.... That's my point, Mr. Chair: they are prescheduled votes, so they're not votes that require our being summoned from elsewhere into the chamber; we're already in the chamber, and that's why there are no bells for those votes.
But, Mr. Chair, when a member opposite says that you have already ruled on this point of order and that I am being frivolous in trying to respect the rules of this place...I find it interesting that a member of the Conservative Party thinks it's frivolous to follow the rules. I am trying to follow the rules that are outlined for us. House of Commons Procedure and Practice, written by O'Brien and Bosc, is what we follow. I'm reading it to you and asking you for clarification, for interpretation, because that is your duty as the chair. I think I'm within my rights to ask the chair of a committee meeting to follow the rules outlined for a committee meeting and for the practices to be followed.
I don't appreciate the credibility of the point of order or the credibility of a member of Parliament trying to follow the rules of Parliament to be questioned or to be laughed at.
Once again, Mr. Chair, what I request is for you to provide some clarification as to whether this meeting is in order, and also to provide some clarification as to whether three minutes' notice is actually following what our common practice is.
As written in O'Brien and Bosc, in the absence of written rules, a committee should refer to practice. There are no written rules is what you had advised me earlier, and I haven't been able to find any written rules just yet. I might be able to in a little while because I'm going to continue reading, but I want to know if this is our common practice, to provide three minutes of notice for members to be summoned to a committee meeting.
Thank you.