Reform of the Committee System in Quebec.
By Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date: 1998-06-22
- Genre: Law
Description
Lucie Giguere is a lawyer in the Department of research and parliamentary procedure at the Quebec National Assembly. This is a revised version of a presentation to the Presiding Officers' Conference in Victoria in January 1998. The process of parliamentary reform currently under way in the Quebec National Assembly began in October 1996 when the Speaker, Jean-Pierre Charbonneau, tabled a document setting out the main objectives of the reform, together with a first set of proposals. The process to reform the committee system has now commenced. Provisional changes - in force until March 11, 1998 - were adopted in 1997, concerning committee schedules and organisation. Further proposals were tabled on December 17, 1997, concerning the appearance of witnesses. This article outlines the organisation and operation of the parliamentary committees as they existed before 1984. It also looks at the current provisions of the standing orders, and the report on committees tabled by a National Assembly task force.
