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Procedure and House Affairs committee  You have to go back to the definition of parliamentary function. That's what this debate is supposed to be about: “duties and activities that relate to the position of Member, wherever performed”. So going back to the rules of interpretation that we both seem to enjoy, “wherever

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Christopherson. As you know, one of the primary institutional roles of Her Majesty's loyal opposition is to hold the government to account. Of course the fact that the government has been adding these offices at a rapid pace has made our job more difficult. We hav

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I'm just going to get one number, Mr. Chair.

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm going to get one number and—

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was signed by Nicolas-Dominic Audet, who was the first person hired, and it shows—

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —on his hiring form here in the House of Commons that his address for his work is in Montreal. He was the first shared employee.

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You told me I was going to get a chance to answer, but I'll have to wait for the next one.

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That would be completely the case, Mr. Woodworth, were it not for one fact that gets in the way of your narrative: the fact that every single month of rent has in fact been paid for by the NDP itself. When we looked at this at the beginning, we said that there was never going t

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, the rule that you are trying to refer to is usually called ejusdem generis, but in fact the rule you should be trying to use is expressio unius est exclusio alterius.

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —where one thing is permitted, that does not mean that something else is prohibited.

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, all the documentation is perfectly clear. It is extraordinarily clear from these documents that we said at every stage that their home base for administrative purposes was, of course, Ottawa. However, they were entirely free to work in an office for which the party pai

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Thomas Mulcair