Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  On drafting, but not necessarily on subject matter expertise. They generally come to the library on the greater international or other concerns....

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  It would be subject to a charter challenge for some element of discrimination or something like that.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Exactly, and saying, “If I've paid into something, what right is there based on my status that I should not get it back”, or something like that.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  I think the challenge might be again what the basic parameters are here versus what would happen in the House on debate or if the bill became law, that here, while it seems like there would be constitutional issues, could it be made constitutional, could it be deemed as being jus

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  —a violation of the charter, saying all people with certain hair colour aren't allowed to do this for instance, that you wouldn't even have to ask anybody and that there could definitely not be any way to save it, so to speak. Is that the—

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  One element at a time. One building material at a time.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Today's bill is Bill S-213, An Act respecting Lincoln Alexander Day. It came from the Senate, so we will just look at one criterion here today: whether a similar matter has been voted on by the House in the same Parliament. In this case, a similar matter has not been voted on by

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This bill is now in the order of precedence, so this bill will precede it. If that bill were to come up, it would basically fall off the order.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Exactly.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Exactly.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  In regard to M-585, this motion from Madam Groguhé calls on the government to redesign its economic policy to help owners of small businesses in the manufacturing sector create new jobs, given the unemployment rates since the 2008 recession. That's a summary of the motion. To ap

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Bill C-639 from Ms. Young is an act to amend the Criminal Code with respect to the protection of critical infrastructures. This enactment, in summary, amends the Criminal Code to create an offence of interfering with critical infrastructures. As an aside, there are some news art

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  In terms of the second criterion, the way that it's framed in terms of the evaluation at this stage, which is determining the votability or the non-votability of items, it's not the same as doing a charter analysis of likelihood that it's compliant, or likelihood that it might be

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Correct.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  The questions you raise go to the language of the criterion of whether there is a clear violation of the Constitution Acts, including the charter, or whether there is a possibility or likelihood of a violation. In terms of the language adopted here, and in previous decisions made