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I call the meeting to order.

Welcome to the eleventh meeting of the Board of Internal Economy of the 44th Parliament.

We'll start off with the minutes of the previous meeting.

We have a point of order, or a request from Mrs. DeBellefeuille.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a point of order and also a request.

I move to reverse items 6 and 7, and to take item 9 following item 4.

The idea is to concentrate all the decisions concerning members and administrative rules affecting members so that we can review them today. That is my first proposal.

I would like to know if my colleagues agree with that.

Do we have everyone's agreement?

Mr. Brassard would like to speak

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

While I don't disagree with Madame DeBellefeuille, I think we should be going right in camera and dealing with item 8 first and item 7 second. I think we can defer item 6 in camera to later, and then we move into the public portion of the meeting after that. My suggestion would be that we move to item 4 in the public portion after we finish with those two items in camera. I think they're very timely matters that need to be addressed. That would be my proposal, Mr. Chair.

Mrs. DeBellefeuille, is this acceptable?

I don't object to this, but I still want to warn my colleagues. We may have one more meeting to go. I really want to make sure that, before we leave at the end of June, we have made decisions on all the things that have to do with constituency offices, MPs' budgets, and so on. I would like to make sure that we deal with all of those items today or, perhaps, next week.

That's fine.

Go ahead, Mr. Julian.

I agree with Mrs. DeBellefeuille on this. Given our agenda, we will meet next week, it is unavoidable. It is better to determine what we want to discuss today. I agree with Mrs. DeBellefeuille that item 4 and item 9 are important and that we need to determine what we will discuss next week.

Since we will also be holding part of the meeting in camera, we need to establish what would be the best way to proceed. It seems to me that we could set a time today to go into closed session, after we have considered items 4 and 9. I would agree to that. The other important items could be deferred to next week.

Mr. Holland, you have the floor.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

It's my view that we have an agenda in front of us. I'm comfortable with the order that's there. I think, if we want to invert this to be in camera, we could talk about that, but doing so would be left for in camera. I think we should just proceed with the agenda we have.

Go ahead, Mr. Brassard.

Thank you.

After hearing the discussion again, I think we can get through four items today, two in camera as a priority, and two in public.

If I hear Madame DeBellefeuille correctly, items 9 and 4 are the in public priorities. I agree with that. In camera I would suggest numbers 7 and 8, and if there is an opportunity to meet next week to deal with these other issues, then we're prepared to do that at any point at the beginning of the week or at the end of the week, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. That would be my recommendation.

Do we have consent to adopt the new order, which would be item number 8 followed by number 7, and then over to number 4 and then to number 9?

Does that make sense? Did I read that correctly?

I hadn't understood it that way.