Human Resources committee  Good afternoon. My name is Philippe Méla. I'm also a legislative clerk. Émilie will do a fine job answering your questions.

Canadian Heritage committee  If I could add something, Madam Chair, it could also be a drafting convention. Maybe the French is not much better than the English in this case. It may be just a drafting convention.

Canadian Heritage committee  You could add an “or”.

Canadian Heritage committee  Madam Chair, you have my apologies for that. I sent you an email earlier, before the committee started. Mr. Housefather's amendment is not in your notes, but it's coming exactly at this point in time.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to refer to the French version for a second, if you don't mind. In the introductory part of clause 27, it reads: 27 (1) At the request of a news business, the Commission must, by order, designate the business as eligible if it: [...] You then

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. To the question of Mr. Julian, I note that the amendment says, “(1.1) The code of ethics referred to in subparagraph (1)(b)(iv)”. As it stands right now, there is no code of ethics referred to in this part of the bill. The only place it is referred to is

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Can I just have a minute to look at it, please?

Canadian Heritage committee  I need a minute or two. I'll be brief for sure.

Canadian Heritage committee  I'm sorry, Madam Chair. It's the legislative clerk here.

Canadian Heritage committee  I just wanted to point out that Mr. Housefather's amendment is on line 20 on page 10, and there are several other amendments that are in between CPC-21 and Mr. Housefather's. If Mr. Housefather's amendment were to be considered and adopted, we could not go back to the ones that

Canadian Heritage committee  Mr. Housefather's amendment goes just before CPC-23, but it addresses line 20 on page 10, and we have CPC-22 that comes before that, and NDP-17, BQ-4, NDP-18, NDP-19 and NDP-19.1 come before that. Since we have to do the bill in the order of the text of the bill—

Canadian Heritage committee  Madam Chair—

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes. If we did it in the order in which they were put in the package, the answer is yes.

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just to make sure I have it properly, just before the text of NDP-7, we would add, “ (vi) they involve a range of news outlets in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors and”, and then it continues.

Canadian Heritage committee  That's right. It continues. The subamendment just adds to that.