Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you wanted to have a full text of the Standing Orders in this revised format, I think it could be prepared for the end of June.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Well, again, not that it's my business, but I didn't see this being a realistic prospect for adoption. I think it was just basically put forward for you to consider.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You present a report to the House from the procedure and House affairs committee saying that this is a ridiculous practice that we want to abandon.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  They certainly have weight and have to be taken into account. If there's a distinction to be made, the circumstances have to be sufficient to allow a certain leeway for the Speaker to deviate. Differences in distinctions matter.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you're talking about the initiative to rewrite the rules, with your permission I would continue to do it. It leads to somewhere or to nowhere, however, depending on what you think about it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Those are just the yellow ones that I brought to your attention. I don't give myself the freedom to make it part of a simple rewrite. I think it's a bit more than that. As Mr. Nater pointed out, and he's perfectly right, if there are reasons that the choice was made to keep it th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think some of the changes are just basically observations. If a practice has fallen into disuse, then is it really good, in an update or rewrite, to keep it? If you want to keep it, keep it. Again, all of this is your choice. I'm only trying to be helpful. I'm not trying to int

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, it's a good point. It's something that we would consider, but again, that will depend on what happens with respect to how you want to deal with the Standing Orders. I'm perfectly happy to withdraw. I did not intend this to be a provocative gesture. Again, as I mentioned ear

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Forgive me, but it's Bosc and Gagnon.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's better keeping it just Erskine May no matter who the editor is.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It will be unless you access it online. I think there's a way to track or trace the changes so that with hyperlinks—I'm not a computer wizard of any kind, but I think there are ways through the online version of the manual to incorporate the changes that would identify the new st

Procedure and House Affairs committee  As for the difference between the annotated Standing Orders and the manual and the reason the manual tends to receive more attention, to be facetious, is because it's a bigger book. The other thing is that the purpose behind the updates is to track the precedents, which simply c

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was basically an objective attempt to provide a service to the members.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Of course.