Years.
Evidence of meeting #6 for Library of Parliament in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was documents.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #6 for Library of Parliament in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was documents.
A recording is available from Parliament.
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A voice
Years.
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
Yes, years. It's not rocket science. Just get it done. If you need authority from whomever, let's see if we can't get that authority.
Who can make this work? Who told you that you can't do it? Let's put it that way.
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Conservative
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Voices
Oh, oh!
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
Seriously, to be honest with you, we should get that out to the public.
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
Yes, there is a resolution on the floor, as a matter of fact.
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
A revolution.
Seriously, it shouldn't be too complicated to just get that out there. I mean, son of a gun....
Who can make it work?
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Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel, House of Commons
All I can say is that so far we've been flagging those concerns in terms of accessibility, ensuring that we explore all the solutions to comply with those principles. If a decision is made to move forward, I suppose the House administration will manage that risk in that situation.
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
It's a decision by whom to move forward? Who needs to make that decision? Is it this committee?
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Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel, House of Commons
We're here before this committee.
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
If you get direction from this committee, would this give you the authority to do that?
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Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel, House of Commons
I think that if there's a resolution from this committee, we would consider the impact and the next steps.
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
As the chair said, I think there was one in 2014.
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Senior Principal Clerk
I don't have the text in front of me. I think it was an instruction to the Library of Parliament to make those available, as I recall.
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Conservative
Guy Lauzon Conservative Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, ON
I'd be willing to make a resolution. If we can break the logjam and solve a four-year-old problem, I think we should.
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Liberal
David Graham Liberal Laurentides—Labelle, QC
Madam Chair, I have the resolution in front of me here if you want me to read it. I wrote it in 2014.
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Voices
Oh, oh!
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Liberal
David Graham Liberal Laurentides—Labelle, QC
There's tremendous pleasure in having been a staffer who can now talk about his motion five years later at committee.
What we passed in 2014, I think, gives them the mandate, and that's why I'm sort of surprised that four and a half years later we're here, but I understand the accessibility issues.
The motion, as amended at the committee, reads:
That, whereas the Library of Parliament already scans Sessional Papers which are tabled in response to Order Paper Questions in the House of Commons, and makes the scanned copies available on the Parliamentary Intranet, that the Library of Parliament provide unfettered access for all Canadians to these same documents on the public internet site, and that such access be provided, from the beginning of the 40th Parliament and future scanned Sessional Papers, as soon as practicable.
We're in the 42nd Parliament now. I think that mandate is fairly clear.
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The Joint Chair Hon. Lucie Moncion
[Inaudible--Editor]
Your time was up, but I think we're on to the resolution now.
Mr. Van Kesteren.
