Procedure and House Affairs committee  Go ahead.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There you go, point of privilege again, Chair. You'll be hearing from me later this afternoon, don't worry. Thank you for coming, and thank you to all your officials for being here. Mr. Speaker, I'm going to focus a bit on the PPS and the current state of affairs. I don't think

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Is it the intention of PPS to have just one bargaining unit between the House of Commons, the Senate, and the folks working at the screening?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To get back to that admiration we all share for this security force that keeps us safe, they have filed a bad faith negotiation. If it's not toward the Speaker and the Board of Internal Economy, then it's toward you, not you personally, but the bargaining that's coming from the R

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Let's look at the status quo, then. We have officers working in this place 60, 70, sometimes 80 hours a week. Overtime is voluntary until the shifts aren't filled, then the overtime becomes mandatory.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It can be, and this is one of the complaints. My concern is that, according to the status quo, until these issues are resolved we will have people working 80 hours on their feet, on shift, to keep us safe. That doesn't seem to be a healthy or good working space for people whose w

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't want to put words in your mouth, but would you say the overtime being served, the extra stress on family, remains a concern?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Ms. MacLatchy, are there any security concerns with the status quo in terms of the different security services operating under three different unions?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I want to be clear with our chair that the interest of PPS in amalgamating these three, even if the various security forces don't want to be amalgamated, is not out of a security desire. I don't want to say it's bureaucratic in a negative sense. You used the term esprit de corps

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. Thank you, gentlemen, for appearing today. You said you were in conversation with the Privy Council Office. Are you also in conversation with the Minister of Democratic Institutions?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They're in Privy Council, but they're not in the Minister of Democratic Institutions' office.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's curious. You talked about the deadline, which you've let us know about. You've let the government know of this deadline. The homework was due in order to have the changes in place. Some of these are very substantive changes. The ones that are contemplated in Bill C-33 inc

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Those sound like major changes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  So it was both the changes that were promised in Bill C-33, which was meant to undo some of the changes made in Bill C-23, the so-called Fair Elections Act—some said “unfair elections act”—plus any changes that this committee proposed after having studied the last election with E