Procedure and House Affairs committee  With respect to the first one—and this is after a few months of reflection—the notice should indicate who the officials are who will be in attendance and whether the Prime Minister will be there. If not, if the head of a party or the minister's name is not on the notice, then the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm willing to see what five days gives us in terms of a system. I'm willing to see what that gives us. It's a lot better than what exists.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. Making it five days means that people should have a very definite idea about who will be attending. I don't mean the attendees; I mean which functionaries, which ministers, or which party leaders or whoever. That would be part of the notice. Then the media would perk up and

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm agreeing with you, and I'm also saying I don't know what the solution is.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I found a solution to the first one, but I didn't find a solution to the second one.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll give you a call the moment I'm not able to sleep. Have I got that right?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, I'm thinking $5,000 for an individual candidate, something that makes the person think that there is a price for breaking the law. I don't think $1,000 quite does it, frankly. I think $5,000 starts people thinking, especially if they also have to remit double the amount of m

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The $5,000 is. I don't remember them all, by the way, but I do remember that $5,000 for certain infractions.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I proposed additions to those changes, but those changes are okay, yes. Insofar as technical amendments are concerned, I really left those up to Stéphane Perrault to handle, because I really don't have the staff to go through all of this in detail.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Let's start with the parties, and then see how far and how fast we want to progress to individual candidacies. There's no reason why any party represented in the House of Commons shouldn't be under the obligation to do that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'll take it under consideration and get in touch with the chair.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I appreciate the invitation to do that, to think more about this.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't think I can, no. This is where you're dealing with something in the law: this is the step, and at that step you do this, and under that step you don't do it. You cannot have flexible steps all the time. It makes it impossible to run anything. Five days is it. At least you

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm in favour of that. If the media wish to attend, I certainly think they should be able to attend and to record what is happening, or at least write down what is happening. I'm not sure that I agree that they should be able to take actual footage. If that's in the statute, that

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's very favourable; that's very good. They can decide if they want to be in attendance or not.