Okay.
Evidence of meeting #1 for Public Safety and National Security in the 39th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was clerk.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #1 for Public Safety and National Security in the 39th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was clerk.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Liberal
Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville, ON
If you had it in on Friday at 3:30, the first meeting it could appear at would be Tuesday at 3:30.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
That's right. I'm sure it's been sitting days. I agree with you, Ms. Brown. I'm sure it's been sitting days.
Anyway, go ahead.
Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
I would just offer to you that I don't think this is intended to do anything other than to simply put it into a format. It's like the debate we're having here--everybody has a different interpretation. If we have it written, it becomes pretty clear to everyone.
I think what we're saying there is that there are some different interpretations of what's gone on in other committees, so if we get some of these things in a more uniform format, then everybody understands.
Conservative
Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
The next one was motions deemed to be abandoned, which is brand new.
Liberal
Sue Barnes Liberal London West, ON
It's silly. All you're doing is saying that if you don't deal with it, you have to start all over again. I like the tabling of motions that come up when people feel they need to come up.
Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
The other change here was the speaking order, and I'm sure that people will have opinions about the proposed speaking order that's here. It's somewhat different from what our practice was in the past.
Conservative
November 13th, 2007 / 4:30 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
It's right here, in number 4. Yes, number 4 is what we used.
Liberal
Conservative
Dave MacKenzie Conservative Oxford, ON
I think what we did in the past is that we went down that side, then we had one, then it went down and the Bloc had one, and then we got one, right? It was you and the Bloc, and then us....
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Garry Breitkreuz
Okay, I'll tell you how it worked, because I had this all memorized.
Every party had seven minutes. The opposition parties had three seven-minute rounds, and then it went to the government for seven minutes.
Then it went to the Liberals for five minutes, then it went over here for five minutes, then it went to the Bloc for five minutes, then it went to the government for five minutes, then it went back to the Liberals for five minutes, then back to the government, and then the final round for the Liberals because you have four on the committee, and then back to the government.
The reason we did it was so that every MP on the committee would get one turn before anybody got two turns. That's how I ran the committee before, and everybody agreed with that. It worked, and I don't want to change it, unless you agree.
Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
That one is okay, but you went through the other two a little quickly.
Bloc
Serge Ménard Bloc Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, QC
I am referring to the motion on the 48-hour notice. You want to add two sitting days. The 48-hour period would mean two sitting days rather than two calendar days? So what do we do if an emergency meeting is convened during the summer? If we submit a motion and two sitting days are needed as notice, what do we do?
