Thank you.
I can't say what was in the mind of our chair when he originally came up with this, but I feel this issue is for our committee because there are many issues at the foreign affairs committee in terms of perimeter security, which is a huge undertaking. The Privacy Commissioner has expressed a concern that the issue of privacy was not going to be looked at, which is in the purview of our committee.
We had tried not to be too definitive in the motion so that we would not create a sense among our Conservative colleagues that we're coming in here with a fixed agenda. We've been meeting with a number of people who have various pieces of the puzzle, but we felt that perhaps the first thing would be just to hear from the commissioner. Then we can decide as a committee whether or not this requires further steps and further witnesses. That's why we did not throw in any other witness names.
So if you want to hold off on this until Thursday and we can talk meanwhile, we'd certainly be fine with that. We do need to find areas within our committee to provide something positive to Parliament and to the public. Certainly the issue of privacy in these deals is something that I think we can work on together. So if we want to find time to talk, we can come back Thursday and discuss it more and people can think about it. I'm perfectly fine with that. I think my colleagues would support that.