Procedure and House Affairs committee  We'll come back to you. (Motion as amended agreed to: yeas 7; nays 4 [See Minutes of Proceedings])

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, the question is on Mr. Turnbull's amendment. (Amendment agreed to: yeas 6; nays 5)

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, course, Madam Chair. To Ms. Vecchio's specific question about the number of reports, it does happen, and does happen frequently enough that a committee will provide more than one report on the same study. Sometimes that takes the form of an interim report followed by a final report, or sometimes it's a report part 1, and that same report part 2.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I'll be sending it out just as he moves it. It will be sent out momentarily.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Turnbull's subamendment would replace “la nécessité” with “l'option” in the French wording of the motion. The motion would therefore become: f) toute autre question liée à la réforme électorale que le Comité jugera pertinente, y compris l'option d'un référendum national afin que les Canadiens aient la possibilité d'approuver tout changement proposé au système démocratique du Canada;

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The vote is on amendment BQ‑2.1. (Amendment negatived: nays 9; yeas 2 [See Minutes of Proceedings]) (Clause 3 agreed to: yeas 7; nays 4) (On clause 4)

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're trying to figure out where it's coming from. It's not completely clear yet. Okay, apparently everything is good now.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I can proceed with a recorded vote. The question is shall the chair's ruling be sustained? If members want to support the chair's ruling, they vote yes. If members want to overturn the chair's ruling, they vote no. (Ruling of the chair sustained: yeas 9; nays 2)

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, it's entirely public.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct. There are no members in the room.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, we'll look into what's going on with the sound here in the room. There has been a bit of a recurring problem in this meeting, which you and some other members noticed. It's something that's been happening in other committees as well. They're trying to address it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, Madam Chair, we did.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I don't think there's consent to it. If the amendment is to proceed, it should go to a recorded vote.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I will. The English version of the motion as amended now reads: That, in respect of the Committee’s study of the government’s reasons for the prorogation of Parliament in August 2020, the Committee renew the invitation issued to the Prime Minister to appear before the committee, provided that if he does not agree, within one week of the adoption of this motion, to appear for at least one hour, the non attendance of the Prime Minister be added to an annex to the main report on the study of the government's reasons for proroguing Parliament in August 2020, and that all questions necessary for the finalization and tabling of the report be disposed of before the end of the day on June 15, 2021 and that the final report be tabled no later than June 18, 2021.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sure, Madam Chair. Ms. Vecchio's amendment is to add the words “members' offices” after the words “federal department”. That would end up reading as follows for the full motion: That all documents submitted for committee business that do not come from a federal department, offices of Members of Parliament, or that have not been translated by the Translation Bureau be sent for prior linguistic review by the Translation Bureau before being distributed to members.