Proceedings and decisions taken in a
Committee of the Whole are not recorded in the Journals.[219] Because the House
is not officially informed of the proceedings in a Committee of the Whole until
the Committee has reported, note is made in the Journals only when the
House goes into a Committee of the Whole, when the Committee reports progress
and when the Committee reports a bill, with or without amendment, or reports one
or more resolutions. If amendments are adopted to a bill in a Committee of the
Whole, they are published in the Journals when the Committee reports the
bill to the House.[220]
Proceedings in a Committee of the Whole are
broadcast live on the internal parliamentary television network, on the Cable
Public Affairs Channel (CPAC)[221]
and on ParlVU, the Webcast service maintained by the House of Commons.[222]
The proceedings are also recorded verbatim in the Debates of the House.[223]
[219]Bourinot, 4th ed., p. 399. Amendments and
divisions have been recorded in the Journals, but this practice was
exceptional. For an example of proceedings in a Committee of the Whole on a
bill in the early years of Confederation, see Journals, April 22,
1870, pp. 230‑1. Prior to 1968 when resolutions were adopted in a
Committee of the Whole before the first reading of a bill, proceedings in
regard to these resolutions were also recorded in the Journals. See, for
example, Journals, June 21, 1965, p. 284. Proceedings of
Committees of Supply and of Ways and Means were recorded in the Journals
as were any resolutions providing for the expenditure of public money or the
imposition of taxes. See, for example, Journals, October 19, 1962,
pp. 124‑5; May 28, 1965, p. 161. See also Journals,
January 28, 1988, p. 2076, when the House resolved into a Committee
of the Whole to consider an item in the supplementary estimates.
[220] See, for example, Journals, December 2, 1997,
p. 316; October 6, 1998, p. 2025; October 19, 2000,
p. 2081. In 1971, proposed government amendments to a bill were tabled and
printed as an Appendix to the Votes and Proceedings (Journals,
October 13, 1971, p. 868; October 28, 1971, p. 895). The
amendments were subsequently moved and printed in the Debates the
following day (Debates, October 22, 1971, pp. 8934‑61;
October 29, 1971, pp. 9157‑70). On another occasion, the Royal
Recommendations covering motions in amendment moved in a Committee of the Whole
were printed in the Journals (June 2, 1983, pp. 5954‑7).
