Procedure and House Affairs committee  To answer Mr. Godin's question, through you, Mr. Chairman, I appreciate that Members are very concerned about Hill workers, and they appreciate that concern, especially the restaurant staff who don't necessarily work part time, but rather for set periods of time, as you pointed o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If I might also add, Mr. Speaker and Mr. Chairman, through you to Mr. Cuzner, through the Partners for a Green Hill, working with the Senate and the Library of Parliament, the three administrations have banded together to raise awareness among our employees, so the whole question

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, through you to Mr. Albrecht, Treasury Board has a reporting requirement that a separate capital vote must be established only when the capital expenditures exceed $5 million. Our House capital expenditures total approximately $3 million, so a separate capital vote i

Procedure and House Affairs committee  You are right. I should have reviewed the translation yesterday. I also see that the expression “cahier de classement“ was used instead of “cahier d'information“. I think the person responsible for the translation may have been new.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's known as Room 200 much more than it is known as the Confederation Room. I discovered it was called the Confederation Room when I was reading briefing notes.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm going to have to go back into the archives to find out more about it. My understanding is that you're correct, the Minister of Defence at the time took it upon himself to decide he was going to call that room the War Room. That was never sanctioned in any way, though it does

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have nothing to add.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, Mr. Chair. I think it has been a very enlightening discussion. I feel the pain of the members who were talking about the frustrations of there being miscreants about, who will simply not respect the work of their colleagues and the work that they're doing in the committee and

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Actually, I should say as well, given that we're also responsible for the orientation of new members, that this has given me all kinds of food for thought for graduate seminars on accountability.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chair, through you to Mrs. Redman, thank you. Some of those measures outlined there are already in place. For example, if a draft report is sent around to members' offices, we ask for a signature so that there's proof that the document actually reached there. The business of

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's not unusual, when the member in question is the leader of a party, for there to be a spokesperson from that party who conveys his or her wishes in a setting such as this one. The committee and you as chair would obviously be free to feel comfortable with that or not. But und

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That was the problem the Speaker wanted the committee to address. I think this proposal does solve that. That is to say, it's not a first-hour thing, and then you jump up and you're ahead, and so forth and so on. As soon as you see the light of day on the order of precedence, the

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right. If you have two similar items and you have an item that has, by good fortune and trading and what have you, come up and been judged votable and is now proceeding, but you have a very similar or substantially the same item coming behind, then that will be non-votable

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No—

Procedure and House Affairs committee  And that has been picked by the lottery.