I call this meeting to order.
Thank you to colleagues for coming in.
Before I call on Mr. McGuinty and Madame Marcoux, I want to update members on some developments with respect to our agenda.
The first development was that Justice Bastarache is willing to come before the committee. As of Friday he was willing to come before the committee on the 7th. Now that date has been moved up to December 2. I propose giving him the full two-hour slot to be able to talk about that report on the RCMP.
The second thing I noticed while we were voting or doing QP, I'm not quite sure, is that the fiscal update is scheduled for November 30. I will take guidance from colleagues as to whether we just cancel November 30 outright. Both developments will make some serious dents in our previously agreed-upon agenda. Prior to Wednesday, I would appreciate the subcommittee communicating with me as to how we want to proceed. I'll probably reach out to each one of you and try to reorder the agenda so that we have a fully productive period of time from today through to the end of the session.
With that, I'm going to welcome Mr. McGuinty and Madame Marcoux to the committee to present their report.
Mr. McGuinty, given our long-standing friendship and your superior knowledge of parliamentary procedures, I found this report utterly...well, I was going to say “unintelligible”. I'm rather hoping you can explain it to me, because I've given a couple of shots at trying to understand what was being recommended in this report. There are so many deletions in the report that it makes it very difficult to follow the narrative.
For the sake of the chair, Mr. McGuinty, I'm rather hoping you give us the dummies' version of your report.
Thank you.