Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Commissioner and Mr. O'Reilly, for being here. Is there a mechanism—you briefly described it previously—within your departments regarding how you actually communicate these? You explained it briefly, and I wouldn't mind your explaining again how, when you're doing thi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think earlier, Mr. O'Reilly, you briefly explained the process for how you have deal with publications. Can you just remind me of that briefly again and then say specifically in this case how it may have happened?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That being said, though, in this circumstance, you don't want to be in a position where you're commenting or putting information out while a bill is still being discussed, and I understand that. Here, again, because of the sensitivity of the timing and the impacts of a date that

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll have to take your word for it, because I'm certainly no—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not an expert on procedure.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  From the very beginning, the issue for me was never about the legislation itself, but about the breach of the process. The whole intent behind this is to ensure that—and there could be a multitude of other ones that have happened—there is no presumption. The committee is charged

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Minister and officials, for being here today. Just so you are aware, Mr. Minister, the comments of Mr. Bittle don't reflect my testimony on Tuesday. I did not suggest for a moment that there was any nefarious plan, or a wilful intent, or a “conspira

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Fair enough. You indicated in your opening remarks, sir, that this was not the first time that something like this has happened, regardless of political persuasion. All parties have been responsible for it. In those circumstances, is it possible that public servants—especially