Procedure and House Affairs committee  Maybe that isn't the best term for it, but for the whip, the House leader, the chair, and the deputy chair, there could be some arrangement made. It could be put into the rules, should members so decide, that there would be some sort of division, or equality, or some sort of bala

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This is a big question that I don't have an answer for.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It gives a person pause. I wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable, knowing all the difficulties and when you consider the traditions of the House and the Standing Orders...you might find that some might say that anything members would like to do is possible. I truly don't know.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  One of the most important—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  One of the most important parts of parliamentary privilege is a member's free access to the parliamentary precinct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Of the other items mentioned in a document that a colleague and I prepared about gender-sensitive parliaments, one was harassment policies. A subcommittee of this committee put together a report that ended up turning into a code of conduct for members on sexual harassment. It's a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I could look into other jurisdictions. For here, I can say what remuneration and pay and benefits are provided for by statute to members. There are a bunch of human resource benefits that members are granted by virtue of being a member and that I'm not privy to; I could discuss t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The committee can make any recommendation it would like in a report to the House and ask the House to adopt the report.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, as the clerk notes, that's within the committee's mandate.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Under the committee's mandate, PROC does have a special relationship with the Speaker and the Board of Internal Economy whereby it can make recommendations to the Speaker and to the Board of Internal Economy, but those are just recommendations.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not familiar with their sitting week. I know they have private members' bills. I know that our House is very circumscribed. I keep using the word “circumscribed”. There is a set schedule and a lot of procedures about it, but I can come back to the committee. I'm not sure abou

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Prior to the appearance of the Clerk of the House, I had only heard of Westminster Hall. I had never heard of the Federation Chamber in Australia. I can look around to see what other jurisdictions are doing. I could be mistaken, but I don't believe there are any in the provinces

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's more or less it, unless the committee had any other questions.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can look into that further. There are new chambers that have devolved out of the U.K. House of Commons. I want to say Scotland and Wales; I am pretty sure they have electronic voting, but let me come back to the committee on that.