Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  I believe so. I would have to refresh my memory specifically on that, but yes, there was a great deal of overlap there.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Yes. If I could categorize it this way, the objective of this act would be to cover a much broader array of institutions around credit cards, regulating the way they use credit cards, whereas the government's bill is only focused on the Bank Act and on institutions in the Bank Ac

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  That's an interesting question. I went through the criteria more out of caution than for conducting this analysis, and my perspective is that it would also be not non-votable if it went through the criteria laid out in the report of the Committee of Procedure and House Affairs. I

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  They would not create a contradiction in the law, because they seem to prohibit essentially the same behaviour in a similar way. I'm sure there would be some instances where one could catch something that the other would not. Of course, the bill could be advanced to committee a

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  I don't know if that would have been determined yet.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  I'm happy to discuss any of the bills that the committee has before it, but as Mr. Graham has mentioned, I'm going to focus my comments on one bill in particular, which is Bill S-203. It is my assessment that all three of these bills could be declared non-votable, but Bill S-203

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  As you can see from the document I distributed, it is my assessment that there isn't an issue. I'm going to go through my assessment. The potential issue with Bill C-405 revolves around whether it concerns a question that is currently on the Order Paper, an item of government bu

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  I reviewed all the items, and an issue came up with only one item, Bill C-352, An act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 and to provide for the development of a national strategy (abandonment of vessels). The issue is that the government recently tabled Bill C-64, An act res

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  They both make amendments to the Canada Shipping Act. I believe the government bill is making a new bill, but it's also amending the Canada Shipping Act. My understanding is that the core of the issue, regardless of which one comes first, is whether they address the same questio