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Meeting Minutes

Monday, April 29, 2013

A meeting of the Board of Internal Economy of the House of Commons was held on Monday, April 29, 2013 at 11:15 a.m., in Room 112-N, Centre Block.

In the Chair: The Honourable Andrew Scheer, Speaker of the House of Commons

Present: The Honourables Peter Van Loan, Gordon O'Connor and Rob Merrifield; Mr. Nathan Cullen; Mrs. Nycole Turmel and Ms. Judy Foote

Secretary to the Board: Audrey O'Brien, Clerk of the House of Commons

Also Present: Mark Watters, Chief Financial Officer; Richard Denis, Deputy Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel; Stéphan Aubé, Chief Information Officer; Kevin Vickers, Sergeant-at-Arms; and Suzanne Verville, Secretariat

Tabling of Minutes

The minutes of the meeting of March 25, 2013 were approved for tabling .

Minutes of Previous Meeting

The minutes of the meeting of April 22, 2013 were adopted.

Legal Matter

The Board discussed a matter regarding the payment of legal fees of Members in a complaint.

Members' Allowances and Services

Travel Points System

The Board agreed to establish a Sub-Committee on Travel.

Mailing Privileges

The Board discussed mailing privileges and the rules regarding large-volume mailings and agreed to resume the discussion at its next meeting.

Public Cloud Services

The Board discussed the issues related to individual Members using a non-House of Commons managed and owned network of servers, storage, services and interfaces hosted on the Internet (public cloud). The Board noted the risks associated with the use of public clouds for storing anything other than public information and agreed to discuss these issues further at its next meeting.

Security

The Board took note of the Minutes of the meeting of the Sub-Committee on Security of the Parliamentary Precinct.

The meeting was adjourned.

Audrey O'Brien
Secretary to the Board