Procedure and House Affairs committee  I've been going back and forth with parliamentary publications. I think ideally if they got something in both languages by midday on the 14th, that would help them out as much as possible. However, if we said the end of the day on Thursday, they indicated that should also be workable.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I guess there are a couple of points. On the first specific point that Mr. Richards raised with respect to the dissenting opinions and the deadline, I did check back with parliamentary publications and they indicated, for additional leeway, until Thursday, May 14, at noon, in terms of some additional time, especially seeing as the committee might need to meet tomorrow afternoon as well.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To Mr. Turnbull's question, it is ultimately the committee's report. Whatever you want to include in your report is perfectly fine. Ultimately, the committee needs to decide whether or not you would like that reference to appear in the report. You can also change it, if you want.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can endeavour to do that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have inquired about any dissenting or supplementary opinions. They must be filed by the end of the day on May 13 at the latest, so that we can table the report on the clerk's desk by May 15. There are certain terms and conditions for producing such opinions. Members are responsible for providing them to me in both official languages.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Richards, the full report, including any supplementary or dissenting opinions, has to be deposited with the office of the Clerk by May 15. Therefore, given the production time that would be required, we would need dissenting opinions or supplementary opinions no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 13, which is the Wednesday two days before.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I've talked to the Parliamentary Publications team and they've indicated to me that they would need a certain amount of time. The suggestion they had in terms of their deadline was end of day on the 13th. I can definitely go back to see if there is some leeway, but I think that if we could keep the deadline as May 13 at 5:00 p.m. as a good working rule, it would be consistent with the technical advice I got back from the publishing team.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, with regard to some of the witnesses and the follow-up information they committed to provide to us, generally, if we've received a response, it's sent out, and with the amount of time that it takes to have it translated, sometimes that might be a day or two. I can follow up and check if we've received something from the Clerk of the House.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, on Mr. Richards' first point with respect to some of the follow-up information that witnesses had committed to send to the committee, the answer is that some of the material has been sent in to us and has been distributed. We are, however, still waiting for some of the other material from various witnesses.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right; it's Harry Moseley from Zoom. That information may have been distributed this morning, since we received the translation. As for some other witnesses from earlier on, like, for example, Madame Laliberté from the Translation Bureau, we are still waiting for information.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. To add to what the chair has indicated, the meeting today is proceeding in public because of the House motion from April 11, which indicated that all virtual committee meetings are to be webcast on ParlVU to the public. That effectively constrains not only our committee but all committees, requiring them to hold their meetings in public and preventing the committee from considering matters in camera.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The short answer generally would be that it would be up to the committee to make a decision like that. Members of the committee know that on consideration of a draft report, any decisions related to its contents would be for the permanent members to make or any member properly substituted for a permanent member.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, Madam Chair. Perhaps you may want to suspend for just a few minutes. We'll try to address the problem with the technicians here in the room. Hopefully, it should take only a handful of minutes, so just stand by, please.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I can confirm that anybody can submit a written brief to the committee. Any potential witness that cannot be accommodated as a witness before the committee always does have that option to submit a brief or submission to the committee to acquaint the committee with whatever thoughts he or she may have on the study that's currently before the committee.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I'm good. Thank you, Madam Chair.