Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure Committee on April 14th, 2016

[The Clerk]

There are general guidelines for all committee submissions that are received. I believe it's 10 pages, maximum. We can choose to use those guidelines that have been set by the committees directorate or we can choose to set our own, if we want something shorter or something longer.

[Karen Ludwig, Liberal, New Brunswick Southwest, NB]

Then, where are they being submitted? Is there a link or an email?

[The Clerk]

They would be submitted to me, to the FEWO inbox. Then they are sent for translation, and then they would be sent to each of the members as well.

[Karen Ludwig, Liberal, New Brunswick Southwest, NB]

Do we need to be promoting that?

[The Clerk]

It is entirely up to you.

[Karen Ludwig, Liberal, New Brunswick Southwest, NB]

How else would people know about it?

[The Chair, Conservative, Marilyn Gladu]

Yes, that was my question.

[Pam Damoff, Liberal, Oakville North—Burlington, ON]

Could you maybe provide each of us with the details on how submissions can be made? Then if we would like to share it, we can.

[The Clerk]

Absolutely.

[Sheila Malcolmson, NDP, Nanaimo—Ladysmith, BC]

Further to that, can the committee choose to advertise or do something to put on our website, some kind of notification, so that it's not only people in our ridings, for example, who hear about the opportunity?

[The Clerk]

I think that some committees in the past have done press releases. If that's something we're interested in doing, it's an option.

I received a call from another member's office this week saying that they were interested in putting this in their householder to send out to their constituents. That's an option as well.

[Sheila Malcolmson, NDP, Nanaimo—Ladysmith, BC]

I'd like to suggest that we recommend to the committee that we do a press release so that there is transparency around people's opportunity to participate.

[The Chair, Conservative, Marilyn Gladu]

I very much like that idea. I think we could talk about that at the committee meeting, which is about to begin.

Once the work plan is revised as written, shall we distribute it to the entire committee?

[Some hon. members]

Agreed.

[The Chair, Conservative, Marilyn Gladu]

The answer is yes, so after the work plan is updated it will be circulated to the whole committee.

Is there anything else for me?

Can we instruct the clerk that the evidence and documentation received by the committee from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada on the subject of the 2015 fall reports of the Auditor General, report 1, be taken into consideration by the committee in this study? Can they refer to that previous information?

[Pam Damoff, Liberal, Oakville North—Burlington, ON]

Does she need a motion?

[The Clerk]

It's just something that we're including in the report that's going to be provided to the full committee today. All the decisions that we take today have to go back to the full committee for approval. It's just one of the items that we have on our list.

[Pam Damoff, Liberal, Oakville North—Burlington, ON]

We're doing that now?

[The Chair, Conservative, Marilyn Gladu]

Yes, we're doing that right now.

We talked about the 19th being the day that we would return to the regular—

[The Clerk]

No, the 19th was the day we were going to [Inaudible-Editor].

[The Chair, Conservative, Marilyn Gladu]

So it's the 31st. Thank you.

[The Clerk]

That's for the subcommittee to consider the witness list. That was the one we're going to be starting up. We can come back to that decision at a later point.

When were we going to come back to the violence against young women and girls study? If we were only going to start it in September—

[The Chair, Conservative, Marilyn Gladu]

It won't be until the fall.

[The Clerk]

—then we can hold off on providing a date for that.

[The Chair, Conservative, Marilyn Gladu]

Yes, we'll figure out what the list is on the 31st, and then everything after that is report writing for the GBA and the review. It will be the first meeting in the fall.