Procedure and House Affairs committee  Overall, I think it's going to be one and then the other.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. I did advise the department that the committee may invite the minister and her officials in June.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Members can see that the month of May is filling up. The informal briefing from Elections Canada has been rescheduled to May 12, and in the remainder of the meetings there are spare hours on May 5, May 10, and May 19. But now we have two positive responses from legislative assemb

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They're from two of the legislative assemblies.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Correct. Those would not be in the eleven-to-one time slot.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have just a small precision about concurrence. Yes, very often committee reports are concurred in by unanimous consent on the same day they have been presented, but there is also the other channel of putting a concurrence motion on the order paper.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This is the final part as far as the presentation goes this morning. Moving forward now, the committee has an order of reference from the House to investigate this privilege matter. When the committee does so, it approaches it in the same way as it does any other study that it m

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. It's a decision of the committee, but I have to say that the practice has been that reports have been made to the House following an order of reference.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, recommendations can still be followed up on. It's not a requirement.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, for a committee's recommendation to the Speaker, or wherever it has power to make recommendations, ordinarily they are taken seriously.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  A concurrence motion is a debatable motion, if that's the channel it's going through, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't think it has been a feature of many of the reports on privilege matters.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. If the committee would like, we can begin with a short chronology of the events in the House that gave rise to the order of reference to the committee, go on to a brief explanation of the specific privilege in question, do a brief summary of two similar cases t