Procedure and House Affairs committee  To be clear on the Centre Block, there will be significant interior demolition work beginning this fall. That's not the construction of particular spaces, but the demolition of large floor plates. Regardless of what you decide you want, that is the way to go. We're comfortable wi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think that would come back to one of the questions. If Parliament wanted to accelerate the opening of the visitor welcome centre, in essence, to prioritize the visitor welcome centre and return the front lawn and the operations that the functionality that would be provided ther

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There have been many lessons learned and I think we could have a deep conversation about that. There would be two that would be relevant to today's conversation that would be very important. One is, as Ms. Garrett mentioned, the layered decision-making approach and to focus on t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  This is another point of engagement with Parliament on the broader campus strategy. Doing the major restoration of the Confederation Building will require swing space. We are planning to put facilities for the House and the Senate adjacent to the former U.S. Embassy to support th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Full restoration of the Supreme Court is in the plans. The West Memorial Building is the swing space for that facility. It's part of the long-term vision and plan from a planning principle perspective, but not from an implementation perspective.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That will be a permanent space with some adjacent space that will run through to Sparks Street for a permanent national indigenous peoples space.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was my grandmother's favourite part as well.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think at this point there are no plans to reintroduce it that I am aware of.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll pass this to Ms. Garrett in a moment. As you know, we were here some time ago—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We had a good discussion on the elm tree. As we discussed, the elm tree was to be cut. The wood is being stored, so that it will be cured and could be used for a future parliamentary use in consultation with Parliament by the dominion sculptor. We are working with the University

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Right now, as you may know, we're working in a very close partnership with the national indigenous organizations and the Algonquin on the former American embassy to turn that into a national indigenous space. We're working almost daily at this point with those groups, including

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As far as public engagement goes, we work very closely with Parliament and want to ensure that parliamentarians are engaged. I think the public consultation—and perhaps Mr. Patrice can add to this—would be done in coordination with parliamentarians, which would be very important.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As I think Ms. Garrett indicated, this would be early 2020.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  But absolutely on what is in the visitor welcome centre, phase two—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Unless we are given some direction to stop, then yes.