Procedure and House Affairs committee  That would be an option, Madam Chair. If the committee gave unanimous consent for that suggestion.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, the meeting notice for tomorrow will be published after today's meeting. It should be coming out in the next hour or so.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Richards is right. They're on debate right now on that motion.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In terms of additional time, we do have a witness tomorrow for a one-hour meeting. We could put on the meeting notice another opportunity for committee business. It would again be fairly brief. Seeing as the committee is moving towards an idea of some type of extension, next Tuesday, June 16, we will have a full three-hour meeting and there could be an opportunity right off the top, at the beginning of the meeting, for some additional committee business.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I could provide some clarity on that. Essentially, the House motion of May 26 was a motion of instruction asking the committee to do a study on possible Standing Orders changes, incremental steps towards a hybrid Parliament, including remote voting. They had a reporting deadline of June 23 in that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I just want to point out to the committee that a deadline of July 10 would actually enable the committee, if that were the will of the committee in terms of the consideration of a draft report, to have meetings on June 16, 18, 23 and 25, and then in the additional week, on July 7 and 9.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Richards just moved a motion. Generally at this point the committee would open the floor for debate until such time as debate is over, and then the committee would make a decision on the motion Mr. Richards just moved. The committee can also decide to continue with the questioning and then come back to Mr.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We can inquire to see if they are available. If any of them are, we could organize a meeting. If none of them are, there would be no real point in having a meeting.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would be at 11 if there is such a meeting, from 11 to 12.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, if I could, I'll very briefly break in here. If that is what the committee does want to do, the committee has indicated possibly getting back to the witnesses on the simultaneous interpretation and asking for a written response. Is that in fact what the committee wants to do, as opposed to inviting them to appear as witnesses?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Until July 3.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Gerretsen, you're correct. The House instruction from May 26 does ask the committee to report back by June 23. There's no direction as to what the content of that report has to be. For example, if the committee did choose to adopt a motion seeking an extension of that deadline, it could bring that back to the House.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm taking nodding as yes. Obviously, for internationally, I know there was some expression of interest in that. There would potentially be a slot available to the committee for only one hour—60 minutes—on Friday. There would not be the possibility of inviting many people. We would also have to determine if any of those potential witnesses I mentioned earlier are in fact available on Friday for a one-hour slot.