Procedure and House Affairs committee The circumstance we're looking at is one in which somebody steps down six and a half or seven months from the next election. The by-election must be called under the law right now. That runs for, say, 35 days. Have I said anything incorrect so far?
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee I guess if promises made by politicians were all inadmissible, there wouldn't be much we would move in legislation. One very senior prime minister adviser, Gerald Butts, once told me that nobody cares about this issue. I think it was borne out that a great number of people actua
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee It's like a last cigarette before going out to the execution squad. This is a tricky one for us because, as many of us have heard from the minister just recently, the idea of a debates commissioner has been coming. At first it was promised in legislation, which I greatly apprec
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee It does not lower the age of voting.
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee We've done it six times today. We do it all the time. When the CEO comes to us, as he has recently done—the new CEO and the previous one—we ask for policy advice. Really, we do. We ask whether this will enable that? We ask about the consequences of vouching and other things. We'v
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee This is a good one.
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee Yes, because I know....
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee Don't bring me down, Chair. I was feeling good for a moment. This is, as was expressed by my Liberal colleagues earlier.... I enjoy studying things, looking them over carefully before we imprudently move ahead. This one requires the Chief Electoral Officer to make recommendatio
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee That's nonsensical.
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee The circumstance we're contemplating is that two citizens go to vote, and one seeks to vouch for the other. They live literally across the street from each other, and as Bill C-76 is currently written now, that vouching cannot happen if they're not in the exact same polling divis
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee Because of what's been passed already, there are two inconsistencies within the act, which maybe at report we'll have to....
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee This is what NDP-26 seeks to address.
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting
Procedure and House Affairs committee It's clearing up an inconsistency within the act.
October 18th, 2018Committee meeting