Procedure and House Affairs committee  The secretariat, not the advisory board—is that your question? It's led by Michel Cormier who is a retired senior executive of Radio-Canada. Michel's experience, I think, is probably two decades or more of actually organizing the debate and negotiating the consortium. He's supp

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We look also to the provinces and the leaders debates there so that we have some built in Canada examples. As we think about civic engagement, we look to the other occasions when debates, discussions and animated exchanges on political issues are encouraged, right through to an i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We do not, the U.S. does.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. We will have a request for proposals. We would expect a consortium would emerge that would undertake the responsibility for the production and the distribution of the debate with high journalistic qualities to make the feed free of charge to a number of other entities. At th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. All of what you said plus more.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Those are two very important questions. First of all, in our terms of reference in the request for proposals we will establish the conditions that come from our mandate as to the kind and type of debate in the public interest that we want. We'll ask for commentary on the matters

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You have a very good memory and you offend frequently.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  May the habit be contagious.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. It's wonderful to be back. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before the committee today. Thank you inviting the Leaders' Debates Commission to review our main estimates. You've kindly introduced us, so let me jump ri