Dans le rapport du comité mixte, comité établi par résolution de la Chambre et de l'autre endroit en 1996, on a étudié attentivement la question de savoir si le code devait faire partie du Règlement ou encore si l'on devait emprunter la voie législative, ce que le député de Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough recommandait dans sa motion d'initiative parlementaire de 2001, et ce que cherchait aussi à faire le projet de loi C-417, dont la première lecture a eu lieu le 20 mars 2003.
If one looks at the joint committee report, a committee established by resolution of both this Chamber and of the other place in 1996, it carefully considered whether in fact we should have a code that would be placed in the Standing Orders or, alternatively, whether we should move on a statutory front, which is what the member for Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough recommended by his private member's motion of 2001, and also what was attempted to be done by Bill C-417, which had first reading on March 20, 2003.