Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are no concerns from the NDP either.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would like to ask a few questions and then let you answer them, just to conserve as much time as I can. First, I really appreciate what Mr. Vis said earlier. It would be very helpful to the committee, I think, to have a regional breakdown of contracts so that we understand whe

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, I guess my question is around workers. I see that you have something in here about how many jobs have been created. I really appreciate that, but I also heard a lot in the presentation about specialized skills and all of the different things. I'm curio

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That helps. My other question has already been brought up, about the current seating arrangement for members within the House of Commons. Is the chamber going to stay the same? As we went through that transition of having more members in the House in 2015, there were bucket seat

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. I appreciate that. I'd like to thank everyone who is here presenting to us. It has been very informative, and I appreciate your summing up in such a short time such an enormous project. I have a few questions. One that was mentioned several times was about a

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't want to interrupt, but, through you, Madam Chair, it's really important for me to understand the lobbies. You're going to have the lobbies on two floors. That's integral to our work, and I just want to say that in the current space we're in, in the West Block, there are

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that. I think it's an important conversation that we definitely need to be having over the next number of years as we become more holistic in our approach. Thank you, Madam Chair, for allowing me to have that moment of a question. I'll go to the next question, and

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. This conversation continues to interest me. One of the things that we are happily seeing in the House of Commons is an increasing level of diversity among the members who represent the different ridings of Canada. I'm wondering if Mr. Dion has any feedbac

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Through you, Madam Chair, with just 20 seconds, I want to thank Mr. Dion for the impossibleness of this task at times. Hopefully, I will get another round. Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you again for this interesting conversation with Mr. Dion today. To go back to my other questions around training, I was wondering if there is a handbook for members. I apologize for not knowing this off the top of my head, but I'm wondering if there

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. Through you, I thank Mr. Dion for that response. One of the things I found compelling about the conversation I heard today is the idea of training and members using the access to training that's provided. There is a question I have for Mr. Dion, through you, M

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Madam Chair, I would like to ask Mr. Dion, through you, to clarify something. I just want to make sure that I understand this. When an MP is newly elected and goes through the training, that, of course, covers a wide range of issues. Is Mr. Dion's department part of that? Is ther

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that. That's very helpful. The next question I have for Mr. Dion, through you, Madam Chair, is.... I heard clearly that the training isn't accessed as much. I'm just wondering if there should be a process where not only new MPs are put into that frame where they ar

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you for that. I know that members of Parliament are being asked to take certain types of training, so I really hope that this committee heard the request for mandatory training that you just made. I will leave it at that.