Procedure and House Affairs committee  I believe I first heard about it when I read The Globe and Mail.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, it's just to note that, in budget 2021, the debates commission was put on a four-year budget cycle. That too speaks to the commitment that the minister mentioned of an ongoing debates commission. They put it on a four-year cycle, and it properly reflects the fact that, parti

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's important to differentiate between just the ambient level that the ministers have discussed, about there always being a base level of foreign interference.... If we were to react to every single one as a government during an election time period, you would conclude that, in

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For briefings for the political parties, the committee—if I can call it that—occurs during the election time period. It could have them weekly or once every two weeks during the election time period. The briefings are intended to provide information on security steps parties shou

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry. I don't have the names right now. Typically, it was the campaign chair, as well as a CIO. For the Conservatives, it was Walied Soliman. I think it was Anne McGrath. They were both participants. I'm sorry. It wasn't the campaign chair for the Liberals. I don't recall

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Your question has a hypothetical aspect to it, so let me take it as a hypothetical. If it related to a specific party, it was a discussion that would be had with the party. They could, of course, raise it in forum at the meetings, but they were not required to. If they had an is

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't have a list of the 11 either. What I can say is that as part of the 2019 and 2021 elections we engaged primarily with campaign chairs and chief information officers for the major parties. I have to say I was very pleased with the level of engagement we had with the part

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I thank the honourable member for his question. You have seen this in the earlier commentary by Professor Taillon. There is in the development of this legislation an attempt to balance and reconcile different aspects of our federation. The first is the issue of wha

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, just to respond to the question on whether there has ever been a situation where you had two rules existing simultaneously—not to my knowledge. If there is additional information, we would of course be pleased to get it for you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I'll just say that the way the budget is set up is designed to provide flexibility in the event that an election occurs later, or earlier. As the minister well stated, you have this kind of foundation amount. I believe the commissioner said that he has five staff.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sure. Madam Chair, the minister is correct. For any services that PCO provides, the back office services—the administrative services—are one portion of it, but the actual flow of money is as you see in the main estimates. PCO does not provide supplementary funding on top of tha

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes. I will have to do it without reference to the document, because of the challenges. As Minister LeBlanc set out in his opening remarks, the legislation is temporary. The CEO can bring it to conclusion by simply providing notice in the Canada Gazette that the pandemic conditi

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, you didn't screw it up, sir, but it's on advice of the Prime Minister. It's the Governor General's decision, ultimately.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I can speak most to the consultation that occurred within the public service. What you would have seen is every government department engaged with chipping in ideas as to the sorts of thematics or signature items that might help give life to the Speech from the Throne. That woul