Procedure and House Affairs committee  And the speed at which Mr. Graham speaks, as well.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For the chamber, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't have that detail. Sorry. There is no direct view from the booth into the House. Probably a screen would be organized on which the person would see the individual talking in the House.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't have that information. We can provide that to you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There have also been occasions, as you may recall, when international figures address the House. Those individuals commonly and frequently spoke in another language.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Reid, if I can add something, I was going through my notes, and one of the assemblies in Canada has identified, I think, nine aboriginal languages, and they have decided to do a rotation such that they have one language per week.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. There will be a third, additional booth for the House of Commons, for the chamber. The booth would not be situated in the assembly in the same way the two others are today, but yes there will be. As for committees, the solution to that would be like what we are doing today, which is to have additional booths in the room.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's a good question, Mr. Graham. As you are aware, when we're talking about S.O. 31s, statements by members, the individual makes a statement, and it stays on the record and then can be added later on. The difficulty comes—and it's up to the committee to decide what they would want to do with that—when you're in question period, let's say, or during debate, and an individual makes a statement in a language that is not known by the other individual or cannot be interpreted immediately.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you recall, Mr. Graham, that situation arises when members make some statements in the House. They provide the text for Hansard, but not for interpretation. I think you would be in a good position to ask that question of our interpretation services, but our understanding is that they are not able to qualify or at least identify the quality of the translation provided at that time.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That could be a decision of the House, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Graham. The renewal came about, and certainly for us an important aspect was to make sure that we updated significant portions of the website. The Senate and the Library were also renewing their portions, so we took that opportunity to make it as modern as possible.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you remember, Mr. Chair, it was part of the discussion the last time it was studied, and if I remember well, the guidelines that we provided and prepared clearly state that the sponsor is not the supporter of a petition. He supports the idea that citizens should be able to petition Parliament.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The numbers are also significant.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly. That's the case. The decision not to make that information public was the decision of this committee.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That was adopted by the House afterwards.