Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  I'm happy to speak on any of the bills or motions if anyone has any questions. The one I noted that I thought the committee might want to discuss is Bill C-385, an act to amend the Navigation Protection Act. The criterion this year around votability is whether it concerns a question that is currently on the Order Paper or the Notice Paper as an item of government business.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  Okay. My assessment is that in fact they do concern the same question or a similar enough question. They are essentially.... I'll go through it very briefly. This provision is a little vague, but I interpret the criteria to cover three situations. The first is where a bill is duplicative: where a government bill and a private member's bill seek to achieve the same goal and they do it in the same way.

Subcommittee on Private Members' Business committee  That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me today.