Library of Parliament committee  We would provide them with a paper copy. That's all we have at the moment, or a scanned version.

Library of Parliament committee  That's exactly what we're studying. The proposed system for electronic and paper petitions is in XML, which would allow us to transfer data and generate a fully accessible document.

Library of Parliament committee  I'm not an expert in technology, but I can say that's precisely why we prepared a Word version of Bill C-81. This makes it possible to make the font bigger. I think we can do this with the tools currently available. It's not fully accessible, but we're improving and that's what

Library of Parliament committee  No, the origin of the system was a private member's motion that was moved by Mr. Stewart.

Library of Parliament committee  I'd like to say we could do this tomorrow, Mr. Eglinski. As I mentioned to Mr. Lauzon, in the next few weeks we want to determine if there is a way to make it accessible. If there is not, we will be asking ourselves what we do in the meantime and if there is an option we could t

Library of Parliament committee  We are currently talking to the Privy Council, but it has told us that it does not have the authority to impose guidelines on individual departments. That's the Treasury Board Secretariat's job. So we contacted the Secretariat, but we're really only in the preliminary discussions

Library of Parliament committee  We would like, as much as possible, to have a system in place at the beginning of the next Parliament. That is our objective.

Library of Parliament committee  Exactly. We need a major development effort to achieve this.

Library of Parliament committee  We really need to find the tool that would allow us to do this, but it seems to be a problem. Based on the initial discussions we have had, there is really no tool right now that would allow us to achieve the result we are looking for.

Library of Parliament committee  I don't have the text in front of me. I think it was an instruction to the Library of Parliament to make those available, as I recall.

Library of Parliament committee  I can't speak on behalf of the library. I don't know if they did have those discussions. We didn't. I know there's a process in place in the act that will provide for consultations. We're certainly committed to doing that on behalf of the House administration. We want to make t

Library of Parliament committee  Yes, exactly. The risk associated with making it available to the public is a consideration.

Library of Parliament committee  They are published in the Debates, in Hansard. It would be some of them, about 25% of them. Those are the simple ones, those that are not made orders for return.

Library of Parliament committee  Those that are made orders for return are the long ones, complex ones and technical ones. Those are the ones that do present challenges in terms of accessibility. The other ones are shorter and are usually very similar to what you would get in terms of a response for a petition:

Library of Parliament committee  Exactly, by the Library of Parliament.