Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry to interrupt you. The committee can still hold subcommittee meetings, but based on the schedule of meetings the whips have agreed to with the House administration, those subcommittee meetings must take place during our regular committee block. Unlike when we're operating in usual circumstances and can schedule a subcommittee meeting around our usual committee meetings, unfortunately we don't have that flexibility.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can suggest, though, that maybe at the end of one of those meetings there could be another similar, brief discussion such as the one you're having right now, and we could go over the plan. That would give me time to see what technical capacity there is to support the committee's having have two extra three-hour meetings in the week coming back from the non-sitting week.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I thank Mr. Lukiwski for raising that, because that is a consideration, to see if there is the available support for our usual block to go from 2 to 3. I would have to look into it. That variable might determine if the committee could meet for a full three hours or not.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's probably easier to get an extra hour at the end of the meeting than before the meeting.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would just inform members of the committee, for their own input, that extra meetings can be had, as the chair indicated, from 6:30 to 8:30 during sitting weeks. Those slots, however, are available on a first-come, first-served basis and some other committees have already started to avail themselves of those slots.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I would have to look at the transcript, once it is out by the end of the day or tomorrow. I could get back to the witnesses with what those questions were, to facilitate a written response from them.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, you can proceed. We'll see if the problem has been addressed. Go ahead, Madam Chair.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. We'll look into it to see what's going on.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They tell me that's better, so that seems to have fixed part of it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Doherty, if it's not an issue of it not being plugged in, it might be on your interface. You need to select your audio headset, and then it will go through the Zoom meeting itself.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, we'll look into it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I was just going to make the point that the motion you've just adopted, as it's worded, gives me some witness material to work with already. There is reference to the Chief Electoral Officer, to the provincial chief electoral officers who have had or will be having elections soon, as well as to provincial public health officials and then advocates.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I'm just looking at the wording of the motion you adopted. Its item (i), which talks about Canada's Chief Electoral Officer, item (ii) about provincial chief electoral officers who have already run elections, and then item (iii) about public health officials. There are, then, people whom we can start with.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Would 12 noon be acceptable to everybody?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The vote is on Mr. Doherty's subamendment. (Subamendment agreed to: yeas 11; nays 0 [See Minutes of Proceedings])