Procedure and House Affairs committee  I know. Sorry, sorry, sorry: I rabbit on.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'd bring my sleeping bag.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sure.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'd be happy to come back.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Maybe—again, not to sort of plan on cooked answers, but to deal with the fact that I rabbit on—if members had specific questions they wanted to submit in advance, that might help in keeping things more succinct, or in keeping me more succinct, not them.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In terms of non-recognized parties, I have to tell you—and I am really going out on a limb here—that the whole issue is not necessarily a problem with the Board of Internal Economy, but rather because the rules changed at some stage. I think that the NDP was the non-recognized pa

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman, honorables députés. I am pleased to be here with Mark Watters as we return for what I believe will be the final session of hearing witnesses in your study on the Board of Internal Economy. I have followed your hearings with interest. I found the comm

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, through you to Mr. Lukiwski, when I testified, appearing at the first meeting of the committee, I said that the board operated by consensus. It's my belief that this is an accurate description of how the board operates. I did say that there had been one vote in my

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In fairness, Mr. Lukiwski, I don't think an examination of the role of the board was part of the mandate of the Auditor General. The Auditor General was coming in to see whether or not the administration adequately supported the Board of Internal Economy and executed its directiv

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm not sure that is correct in the sense that I think the audit didn't go one step behind that to ask if these policies are the correct ones. I think that's one of the difficulties with this discussion of the board: that many different issues become conflated. We're talking abo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, I think this is a very important question. One of the things we were particularly pleased with when Mark and I visited London and talked to John Sills, and his colleagues at IPSA and the colleagues at the House of Commons, was finding that the processes we have in

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Exactly, and usually what the chair would do is to encourage further discussion.