Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  The question for this committee is to determine whether in its opinion the threshold has been met or whether that is a question best determined when the bill goes before the House.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  My understanding is that you're asking about the likelihood of it—

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  —violating the charter. That analysis is not the analysis—

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  That is to be undertaken according to the second criterion, which is that the bill does not “clearly violate” the—

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  No, and it's true. It's a committee policy consideration to determine what threshold to let things through, to enable private members to be able to present bills.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This is on ferry services to Prince Edward Island by Mr. MacAulay. This motion essentially calls on the government to ensure stable and adequate funding for the ferry service between Wood Islands, P.E.I., and Caribou, Nova Scotia, which is interprovincial travel, so that's the f

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This is from Dr. Bennett regarding missing and murdered aboriginal women. This motion calls on the government to address the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women, and to call a public inquiry into the issue. This motion does not concern questions that are outside of f

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  The other one would still be able to go ahead.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  They're not exactly the same by any means. The other motion is quite a bit broader. In terms of what the committee has allowed to go forward before, they really, again, erred on the side of being permissive, to enable motions and bills to go forward unless they're really, substan

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  The criteria, as set out, is the same as ones already voted on by the House in the current session of Parliament. I went through the order paper and notice paper particularly for this session of Parliament, so the second session.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  I can't speak to what happened in the first session because I haven't double-checked, but I went through the second session. There aren't questions as items of government business. The government hasn't brought any such motions forward.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Bill C-661, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (transfer of family farm or fishing corporation) is from Madame Raynault. As noted in the bill's summary: This enactment amends the Income Tax Act in order to provide that, in the case of the shares of the capital stock of a family

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This is from Monsieur Giguère regarding small and medium-sized businesses. In summary, this motion calls on the government to reduce transaction fees charged to merchants and to allow merchants to disclose to the consumer the transaction costs relating to the payment method chose

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  This motion calls on the House to reaffirm the recognition of various genocides—the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, the Rwandan genocide, and the Ukrainian famine and genocide—and to recognize the month of April as genocide remembrance, condemnation, and prevention month. I ho

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Thank you. This does not concern questions that are outside of federal jurisdiction. It does not clearly violate the Constitution acts, including the charter. It does not concern questions that are substantially the same as ones already voted on by the House in the current sessi