Procedure and House Affairs committee  The paper that was circulated to committee members on issues and options includes options that emerged from the evidence presented to the committee. Members may have other ideas, other options they want to put on the table, and Mr. Kingsley made some proposals today that were obviously not included in the paper, because it was presented before his appearance.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much. The chair asked me to present the referendum framework in Canada, so I'll present quickly the Referendum Act and give some information about the study that was conducted by this committee in the last session. Mr. Kingsley also referred to much of the information to which I will refer.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  At the beginning of every session, there is a claim from the Speaker to the Governor General so that parliamentary privileges are granted to the members of the elected chamber of the House of Commons, but this is a practice. The privileges of the members in the House of Commons are already in the Constitution.