Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't. I have done very badly in answering the questions this morning just in terms of my areas of responsibility. My understanding of the way cabinet is functioning right now is that there are obviously fewer cabinet ministers in the room and there is reduced support staff,

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely. To address your concern, what specifically would you like to know?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No problem.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I should start by telling you that I'm not a security expert and I don't have a good factual basis to respond to your question. However, if it's the will of the committee, I'd certainly be willing to talk to my colleagues in the security area and get you the latest on the governm

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Again, I'm not actually involved in the security determinations in terms of, for example, what connectivity is used in various formats. But yes, all of the appropriate security agencies of government are involved in that. If it would be useful to the committee, I could get you a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. Obviously, it's critical to going forward that whatever path is found does respect the country's official languages. In terms of exactly what form that takes, I would defer to the work your committee is doing. I think the House, quite rightly, has ask

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No problem. I'll slow down. I was just mindful of the precious time limitations, but I will slow down.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The passage of emergency legislation has happened, as I mentioned, right across the board provincially—in Ontario, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan—and internationally you're seeing it in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. I'll give you a couple of points of comparison i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thanks very much, Madam Chair. Members of the committee, I never thought I'd get a chance to appear in front of a parliamentary committee from my dining room. There can be no doubt we're in some interesting times. That said, it's an honour to appear to try to sort through how be

Government Operations committee  Every minister has unique powers, duties, and functions, depending on their responsibilities.

Government Operations committee  As you know, there's a unique series of considerations that goes with each minister, and after the coming into force of this ministry there were also some orders in council that transferred some powers, duties, and functions to—

Government Operations committee  No, it is the policy of this Prime Minister under this cabinet that ministers can take forward items, MCs, on their own. But it is also the expectation that if it crosses the mandates of other ministers they should be co-signed, and that's true for all ministers.

Government Operations committee  First, I don't remember the news coverage in question that you're referring to. I thought your question, as I heard it the first time round, was in relation to salaries. I thought I heard you say that there was something in relation to back pay. We can certainly go back and I'd b

Government Operations committee  But if you'd like, we can go back and look and see if there is some issue where it took a couple of weeks for it to kick in or whatever.

Government Operations committee  I'm happy to look into it. I hadn't understood the second part of the question. I thought it was related to salaries, but I'm happy to look into it and we can provide to the committee a summary of how that happened.