House Committees

House Committees are internal groups of the House of Commons, composed of Members of Parliament with backgrounds in a certain field. There are three main types of committees: Standing Committees which exist at any given time, Special Committees which may be created in the event of certain circumstances and are dedicated to a particular issue, and Joint Committees which cover the operation of the House of Commons and the Parliament of Canada.

Function
Standing Committees are to meet once per week on a day other than the regular sitting of the House, or, in the event that a sitting runs short, immediately following said sitting. Meetings of Standing Committees are to be allocated on rotation. In the event of a particular committee having urgent work to attend to, that committee is to meet.

Committees are responsible for scrutinizing bills put forward by the House of Commons, and carrying out investigations ordered by such.

Standing Committees
The following are the current, Standing Committees of the House of Commons:

Joint Committees
The following are the current, Joint Committees of the House of Commons